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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CIF Girls’ Tennis: Poly, Wilson Easily Win Quarterfinal Matches

JJ Fiddler

Both Long Beach Poly and Wilson won CIF Southern Section girls’ tennis playoff matches on Wednesday. The semifinals are scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p.m. Long Beach Poly (23-0) went on a long road trip to Temecula where the Jackrabbits handed Great Oak a 17-1 defeat in Division 2. Poly got sweeps from singles Ava […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Ten

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]

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ROUNDUP: Long Beach Volleyball CIF Quarterfinals Coverage

Mike Guardabascio & JJ Fiddler

We’ve got full coverage of all the Long Beach girls’ volleyball playoff action Division 1 Mater Dei sweeps Long Beach Poly; READ MORE about the Jackrabbits’ loss and how they’re still alive for state. WATCH VIDEO / SEE PHOTOS Division 5 St. Anthony comes back against Oak Hills; READ MORE about how the Saints bounced […]