Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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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The Long Beach State women’s basketball team has not won a regular season Big West title since 2006-06, and have not won one outright since Joan Bonvicini was coaching in 1989-89. After a wild comeback on Thursday night that saw them overcome an 18-point deficit to third-place UC Santa Barbara, the Beach are on the […]