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.
The562’s high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr St. Anthony softball has been patiently waiting to get back on the field after losing in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 semifinals. The Saints also waited patiently to drum up some offense in the […]
The562’s coverage of volleyball in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Misty-May Treanor and the Dream in Gold Foundation. The Tae Kim Lakewood/Molten Classic had the top five Moore League teams competing, and three of them brought home hardware, as Lakewood was the Division 1 gold bracket runner-up, Millikan was the Division 2 gold […]
Ray Porter is not one to celebrate himself. A 1973 graduate of Long Beach Poly, he’s spent the last 34 years working as a locker room attendant and campus security officer at his alma mater. In that time, the people who’ve worked with him have never heard him brag about himself or take credit for […]
