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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Hometown Hero JuJu Smith-Schuster Extends Long Beach Poly’s Deep Super Bowl History

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Mike Guardabascio In August of 2010, longtime Long Beach Poly football coach Raul Lara said he thought he had a special freshman player who’d come into his program. “His name is John Smith,” said Lara. “He’s gonna be special. He might be one of those really special kids to come out of here.” Any intelligent […]

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LIVE UPDATES: Cabrillo vs Jefferson, High School Football

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We’ll have live updates from the return of high school football tonight at 7 p.m. as Cabrillo hosts Jefferson CLICK HERE for our previews of the game. Click here if you can’t see the updates. Tweets by 562sports Support The562.org

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Feature: Daylen Austin Brings Star Power to Long Beach Poly Football

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Long Beach Poly junior defensive back Daylen Austin already had plans for this Saturday. The five-star recruit was scheduled to take an unofficial visit to Oregon, where he was going to watch his older brother Alex suit up for visiting Oregon State in a crosstown rivalry game between the Ducks and Beavers. Daylen had to […]