Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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Usually when a high school soccer team plays a dominant second half it comes after some sort of rousing halftime speech or a massive shift in strategy. That wasn’t the case on Tuesday night at Millikan where the Rams hosted Long Beach Poly in Moore League girls’ soccer action. Millikan coach Tino Nunez said the […]

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Softball: Lakewood Gives Back With Clinic

JJ Fiddler

The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. This week is the perfect time to give back to the Veterans community, and the Lakewood softball team did exactly that at Heartwell Park. The Lancers hosted a clinic for local Veteran Dustin Scott’s 6U Heartwell softball team. Dustin served in the United […]

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Long Beach State Photos Volleyball

PHOTOS: Long Beach State vs. UC Santa Barbara Volleyball

Mike Guardabascio

We’ve got some great shots of Long Beach State’s sweep of the Gauchos from photographer Stephen Dachman.