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.
Everybody loves a good Hail Mary touchdown. With just seconds left on the game clock, the California high school football community completed a metaphorical 80-yard touchdown pass to somehow persuade the California Department of Public Health to reverse its position on contact sports. In a three week span, teams went from not being allowed to […]
A historic year produced a historic championship. The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team had won six CIF Southern Section titles and six CIF State titles coming into Thursday night’s CIF-SS Division 1 championship against Esperanza, but they’d never done it at home. That special accomplishment came as the result of an unbelievable COVID year […]
There are four Long Beach teams in action on Friday in the second round of the CIF-SS winter playoffs. Boys’ Basketball, 7 p.m. Division 1: Long Beach Poly @ Riverside Poly Division 2AA: Compton vs. Capistrano Valley Christian Boys’ Soccer, 7 p.m. Division 1: Millikan vs. Santa Ana, Veterans Memorial Stadium Division 7: St. Anthony […]
