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.
Long Beach Poly and St. John Bosco’s boys’ basketball teams likely expected to be playing each other on Saturday evening in the Bosco Gahr Winter Classic. The Jackrabbits and Braves were supposed to be playing in the championship game, however, and after surprising semifinal losses they ended up meeting in the third-place game. The Jackrabbits […]
Long Beach State fell short in their second half comeback attempt against Big West rival UC Irvine as they lost 77-72 late Saturday night. In a great effort by the Beach, Joel Murray paced them with 20 points while Colin Slater added 16 points and 7 assists in the loss. The Beach were down big […]