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’s football team was beaten 45-0 last Saturday in their season opener against Punahou of Hawaii in the Moorpark High Football Classic. It was the worst loss the Jackrabbits had suffered since 2012’s 56-0 shocker to Narbonne, and just the third time the team had been shut out this decade. Poly, the state’s […]
As Dan Rydell said in Sports Night, “They say it’s always calmest before the storm. That’s not true. I’m a serious sailor. It isn’t calm before the storm. Stuff happens.” Leo Corona knows what “stuff” means. The Cabrillo senior is in the midst of an emotionally turbulent year, but he woke up last Saturday ready […]