Lakewood athletic director Mike Wadley has been busy during the COVID-19 high school sports shutdown. Wadley is helping oversee a new stadium (with turf field and all-weather track) set to break ground in February, a redesign and renovation of the school’s weight room (also beginning in February), and last week announced that the school had […]
In a move that was widely expected, the CIF Southern Section–the governing body for all local high school sports–announced that it’s canceling its Fall sports championships on Tuesday morning. Football, girls’ volleyball, cross country, and water polo will officially not have CIF-SS championships in the 2020-21 school year. “There has not been enough progress made […]
Story by Earl Williams NOTE: Earl Williams is a longtime sportswriter who worked at the Press-Telegram during its glory years under editor Jim McCormack. He’s provided an expanded obituary on Long Beach hoops legend James Hardy–thank you to Earl and to Jim for making the connection. Click here to read our obituary from last week. […]
From where the undersized running back is standing behind the line of scrimmage, every play is chaos. There’s the clarity of the ball being pressed into his gut and his hands closing around it to secure it, but everything ahead is disorder. There’s the way the play was drawn up, taught, and reviewed all week, […]
IMAGE COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Former NBA player James Hardy, one of the best athletes to ever come out of Jordan High, passed away in late December of a heart attack. Hardy, who was 64, was from Knoxville, Alabama but came to Long Beach with his parents as a child as part of the […]
After 12 months of almost exclusively bad news, 2020 ended on a positive note thanks to several Long Beach Poly pro sports alums, as well as some students. Poly NFL and NBA products hosted several events and made several donations to local charities, helping to brighten the spirits of many in the city. “We’re really […]
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team continued its excellent start to the season on Friday evening with an easy win over Cal State Fullerton, 69-50. The win improves the team to 6-1 on the season and 5-0 in Big West play, the team’s best start to a conference slate since the 2005-06 season. Although […]
We’ve got some great photos from Long Beach State’s win by photographer Joseph Kling.
Story by Mike Guardabascio & Tyler Hendrickson With officially sanctioned high school football in California still in limbo at the dawn of 2021–and looking increasingly unlikely for this school year–two club operations have sprung up that have provided an alternative for players looking to get on the field. The Maximum Potential Elite 10 in Bullhead, […]
NCAA Basketball: Long Beach State vs Bakersfield Long Beach State fell despite a game-high 18 points from Isaiah Washington.