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.
Fifteen Long Beach athletes will compete in nine events at the 100thannual CIF State Track & Field Finals in Clovis. Long Beach Poly’s girls’ team is one of the three teams expected to compete for the state championship and they’ll race the other favorites, Serra and Calabasas, head to head in the 4×100 and the […]
The Jordan Panthers pulled away late on Friday to beat Norwalk 17-7 at Excelsior School. Jordan (3-1) is on its first three-game winning streak since 2010, and the best start since 2008. Jordan running back DeShon Harris scored a pair of touchdowns from 58 yards and seven yards to break a 7-7 tie. Kicker Brian […]
DeSean Jackson was on the sideline for Long Beach Poly’s football game against Los Alamitos on Friday night, but unfortunately for the Jackrabbits he was in street clothes. It’s been 14 years since Jackson was Mr. Do Everything in the 2004 CIF championship game against the Griffins, and they sure could have used him on […]