The first game of the Raul Lara era at St. Anthony will be a tough challenge for the Saints, hosting the projected LA City Section champions, San Pedro. While Clark Field is being prepped for renovations, St. Anthony will be using various host sites this season, beginning with Thursday’s opener at St. Pius X – […]
Raul Lara is home. The longtime Long Beach Poly coach departed the Jackrabbits program in 2013 after 13 years as head coach and five CIF-SS Division 1 championships. He brought wins and success to a struggling Warren program, and for the last couple of years had been serving as an assistant coach at Servite, observing […]
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Here is a full schedule for all of the Long Beach high school football games this season. Games scheduled for 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Thursday, Aug. 19 St. Anthony vs. San Pedro at St. Pius X – St. Matthias Academy Jordan vs. Kennedy Friday, Aug. 20 Long Beach Poly vs. Leuzinger at Veterans Memorial […]
Is Long Beach Poly back to its former glory? Can Millikan challenge the Jackrabbits and make a CIF playoff run? Will new but familiar coaches at Wilson and Lakewood be perfect fits? We answer those questions and more this week on the show as we discuss everything about Long Beach high school football as the […]
Each year, we award the Spirit of Long Beach to a person or group of people who move us, and who we feel we’ll remember for years to come when we look back. This year, the Spirit of Long Beach is going to a large group, but one that rarely gets mentioned in print: administrators, […]
The coaching news continues to flow out of St. Anthony High School, where Athletic Director Chris Morrison has just named Alan Mitchell as the new head coach of the boys’ basketball program. Just last week, the Saints hired Raul Lara to take over the football program, and now Mitchell will be taking over another top […]
This week we continue an eight-year long tradition of presenting the Grunion Sports and The562.org’s All-City Awards, a revival of a beloved city tradition. This week we’ll present our individual All-City Athletes of the Year awards to the top performers in each sport, then next week we’ll name our top boy and girl athlete of […]
After announcing they’d parted ways with longtime football coach Mario Morales yesterday, St. Anthony is making big waves today with the announcement that they’ve hired Long Beach Poly coaching great Raul Lara to be the Saints’ next coach. Lara won five CIF-SS Division 1 championships while coaching the Jackrabbits, then had a successful stint coaching […]
St. Anthony is parting ways with its most successful football coach in half a century, as the school didn’t renew its contract with head coach Mario Morales. “I was called in for a meeting today at noon, it took about a minute and they said they’re going in another direction,” said Morales. “It’s been great, […]