Author: 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.
Long Beach Poly Football’s Last Game at Vets Falls Flat Against Yorba Linda
The562’s Poly and football coverage for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Long Beach Poly football played their last game at historic Veterans Memorial Stadium on Friday night, wrapping up 76 years of history. The game didn’t go off as the Jackrabbits hoped, […]
LIVE UPDATES: Long Beach Poly Football vs Yorba Linda, Millikan vs Loyola, Wilson vs JSerra, Lakewood vs Paramount, Jordan vs Crenshaw, St. Anthony vs Ontario Christian
LIWe’ll have live updates from tonight’s football games on Twitter, which you can find below. All games start at 7pm. Click here for our full previews of all the games this week. CLICK HERE if you can’t see the updates–please note that Twitter’s recent API changes may delay updates in this feed. Click the link […]
PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly Football Last Game at Veterans Memorial Stadium
The562’s Poly and football coverage for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Seventy years of history come down to Friday night as Long Beach Poly prepares to host their last game at Veterans Memorial Stadium on LBCC’s campus. Vets has been Poly’s home […]
Long Beach Girls’ Volleyball Preview
High school girls’ volleyball season is underway in Long Beach, and it promises to be a memorable season. Several teams have returning star players and several are boasting new coaches hoping to kick off new success for their teams. There’s also a big change in volleyball like in all sports, with Compton and Cabrillo leaving […]
Long Beach Football Rankings
The562’s football coverage for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. The562 does not do rankings–we prefer to cover the kids and spotlight them than to give our opinions. However, since HSRatings.com’s computer rankings are used to determine CIF-SS playoff brackets, we do consider […]
Long Beach Poly Girls’ Volleyball Preview
The562’s Poly coverage for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Long Beach Poly girls’ volleyball coach Gerald Aquiningoc could be forgiven for resting on his laurels for a few minutes. Since he took over the Jackrabbits, the team has won three straight Moore […]
Millikan Rams Girls’ Volleyball Preview
The562’s coverage of Millikan Athletics is sponsored by Brian Ramsey and TLD Law. The Millikan girls’ volleyball program is looking to start a new era, and they’re turning to a dynastic volleyball family in the city to do it. The Rams welcome in Gus Tuaniga as their new coach this year, and it’s hard to imagine […]
St. Anthony Girls’ Volleyball Preview
It’s a new day for the St. Anthony girls’ volleyball team. Fresh off of a 13-10 overall performance last year that also saw the Saints finish 2-6 in the Del Rey League to take fourth place, the school is turning to a new coach to lead them in a fresh start. They couldn’t have picked […]
COLUMN: The Impact of A Great Teacher
Judy Haenn gave me permission to be the person that I wanted to be. She was my ninth grade English teacher, and also my first period teacher–which meant that her kind face was the first one I encountered as a nervous, overwhelmed freshman. I knew at that point that I loved writing and reading more […]