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.
Despite being a smaller group than in recent years, Major League Baseball players with ties to Long Beach have already made a wide variety of headlines on MLB.com during this truncated regular season. Lakewood High alum J.P. Crawford, 25, is having a breakout year with the Seattle Mariners, and the shortstop was the subject of […]
After nine weeks of action here’s where things stand in the Long Beach girls’ basketball world with a list of this week’s games below the standings box. Note: Standings based on reported results. Coaches can report scores/weekly results as well as schedule listings to Mike@The562.org. — This week’s games WEDNESDAY Long Beach Poly vs Lakewood, […]
The Cabrillo Jaguars (0-3) take the field tonight at home at 7 p.m. for their final non league game of the season, hoping to pick up their first win. The Jaguars face a 2-1 Lynwood team that carries the lowest CalPreps ranking of any team they’ll face for the rest of the year–in other words, […]
