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.
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team has had an up-and-down non-conference schedule that featured impressive wins, baffling losses, and proof that the team is capable on any given night of beating anyone in the Big West. It was no surprise that Long Beach handled UC Riverside easily in its Big West opener, sweeping them […]
After the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team’s four-set loss to UCLA, junior libero/hitter Hailey Harward was seated at a black table waiting for the postmatch press conference to begin. She banged the table and leaned over to head coach Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer. “Ah! We’re so close,” she said. Indeed, the 49ers were tantalizingly close to […]