This week on the podcast Mike and JJ talk to Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee and soccer coach Mauricio Ingrassia about how the Beach is adjusting to all of the recent NCAA proposals and changes. 03:30 Interview With Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee 07:00 Interview With Long Beach Soccer Coach Mauricio […]
Ryan Geck burst onto the scene last season, doing things ninth graders aren’t supposed to be able to do on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. At 6-foot-3 and 230 lbs., the Millikan first baseman dwarfed opponents and teammates alike while showing flashes of his prodigious power at the plate. Not since the days of Sean […]
Photos Courtesy Long Beach State Athletics As the world collectively adjusts to a life spent at home, athletes and non-athletes alike are forced to get creative for their workout needs. With the recent cancelation of all NCAA sports through the remainder of the school year, Long Beach State now has hundreds of student-athletes scattered across […]
Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee talks about the ‘State of the Department’ and we catch up with water polo coach Gavin Arroyo to congratulate him on his USA Water Polo Hall Of Fame induction. Beach Athletic Fund on X (formerly Twitter): “🚨State of the Department🚨 with @TheAndyFee tonight at 5:30 pm. Check your […]
Volleyball legend Misty May-Treanor is stepping away from Long Beach City College after four years as the Vikings’ Director of Volleyball and head women’s and beach coach. “Every challenge Misty has had in life she has met and excelled,” said Interim Athletics Director Bill Husak in a statement. “She was a champion indoor and beach […]
No one can magically give the Class of 2020 a hug from their parents after walking across the graduation stage. No one can give those parents the pictures from before prom. No one can turn everything around from strange to normal. However, the Long Beach Unified School District high schools will try to at least […]
Rumors of Long Beach golfers illegally playing on the local courses have not been greatly exaggerated. Long Beach Parks & Recreation golf courses at Recreation Park, El Dorado Park, Skylinks and Heartwell have all been closed for almost a month, which is the longest such closure in city history. However, the COVID-19 closure of nonessential […]
Are you missing sports like we are? We’ve decided to go back and re-record some of our favorite Long Beach highlight videos we’ve produced over the last 12 years. This week we’re starting with the 2012 Moore League baseball showdown between Lakewood’s Shane Watson and Wilson’s Chase De Jong, and we’re talking to De Jong […]
As professional sports leagues across the world came to a halt due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, one of the last countries to shut down its athletic activities was Turkey. Nearly three weeks after the NBA postponed its season here in North America, the Turkish professional leagues were still playing competitive games. That includes […]
As we celebrated February’s two-year anniversary of the562.org’s launching, we had plenty to be happy about. The runaway growth of the website meant we were reaching hundreds of thousands of people each month, and we’d published more than 500 photo galleries and 450 highlight videos, as well as more than 1,000 articles. None of that […]