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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The Jordan football team made history Friday night in Irvine, playing in the program’s first-ever CIF Southern Section championship game, and bringing home the program’s first-ever CIF-SS plaque. The only problem? It wasn’t the color plaque they wanted to put in the trophy case. The Panthers fell short on the road against Northwood as their […]

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Top 10 Long Beach Sports Stories Of 2018

Mike Guardabascio & JJ Fiddler

Like every year for the last 130 or so years in Long Beach’s history (football games were played here before the city even officially formed), 2018 was a memorable one for sports. As it draws to a close, we look back on the top 10 sports stories from the last 12 months. 10. Long Beach […]

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