The562’s high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009.
There is a hole in the Southern California sports world after the loss of Lakers icon Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday along with his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Bryant was an inspiration for generations of athletes in Long Beach, and not just basketball players. “I met Kobe at the […]
John Ross was all smiles last year after the celebrity flag football game for his John Ross III Foundation at Veterans Memorial Stadium. “We’re going to come back and do this again next year. We want this to be a tradition,” Ross correctly predicted. However, the celebrities will be playing basketball for charity this year […]
