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This week we’re talking about local college rebranding (1:00) before handing out midseason grades to all of the Long Beach high school football teams (5:00) and discussing cheating in sports (20:00).
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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