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.
With two weeks to go until the July 23 Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Long Beach Olympic picture is coming into focus. While it doesn’t look like this year’s local crop of athletes will be as big as in some previous Games, it’s still a good-sized and diverse group. As always, […]
It was a frustrating week for the top football team in the city. The Long Beach Poly football team (3-0, 2-0) sat idle on Friday after Jordan canceled due to a lack of available healthy players. The empty week wasn’t for a lack of trying–the Jackrabbits said they made contact with dozens of schools who […]
It was a tumultuous week across the city: the Long Beach Unified School District’s high schools took the field for football practice on Monday, then saw those practices closed back down again on Wednesday. Even while they were going on, those practices looked a lot different. “Our conversation a couple weeks ago about restarting was, […]
