Mike Guardabascio
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.
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VIDEO: Long Beach Poly Football Season Preview

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Long Beach Poly Football Season Preview 2018 Read more about this year’s Jackrabbits team: https://stage.the562.org/2018/08/10/long-beach-poly-jackrabbits-football-season-preview/ Visit the562.org and click SUBSCRIBE to keep these videos on Youtube.

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Football: Long Beach Poly Beats Serra In Overtime In Emotional Return to Field

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Before Long Beach Poly’s football game against Serra on Friday night, Jackrabbits coach Stephen Barbee read his team a poem. The Dash poem is about the mark in between the years on a tombstone, a flat line between a person’s birth and death that represents their life. He asked his team what their dash was […]