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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Thursday’s Long Beach CIF-SS Playoff Schedule

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It’s the busiest day of the week with 11 Long Beach teams competing in playoff games on Thursday. Boys’ Basketball, 7 p.m. Open Division: St. Anthony @ Etiwanda Girls’ Basketball, 7 p.m. Open Division: No. 4 Long Beach Poly (Saturday) Division 2AA: No. 4 Millikan vs Vista Murrieta Division 2AA: St. Anthony @ Saugus (Saturday) […]

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Long Beach Poly’s Peyton Watson Taken By Denver In NBA Draft

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Growing up in Long Beach, playing basketball at the JCC as a kid and at Long Beach Poly as he grew, Peyton Watson dreamed of the moment that happened last night. The Long Beach and Bixby Knolls native was in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn where he heard NBA commissioner Adam Silver announce his name […]

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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly Heads To Windward, Hoping For CIF Final Berth

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The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball CIF-SS Open Division loss to Corona Centennial on Wednesday posed more questions than answers. Namely, about the Open Division tiebreaker. If the Jackrabbits win at Windward tonight at 7 p.m., it would create a three-way tie in the pool with Poly, Windward, and Centennial all at 2-1, having beaten […]