When Long Beach high school football was at the height of its powers in the 1990’s it was routine for Moore League teams to use their superior speed to beat teams from outside the local area. The Jordan Panthers looked like one of those classic Long Beach teams on Friday night when they used their […]
The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. During last week’s 49-21 playoff win over Saugus High, the Millikan offense needed exactly one drive to find its rhythm. By their second possession, the Rams were fully in sync, rattling off 49 unanswered points as they cruised into the […]
From where the undersized running back is standing behind the line of scrimmage, every play is chaos. There’s the clarity of the ball being pressed into his gut and his hands closing around it to secure it, but everything ahead is disorder. There’s the way the play was drawn up, taught, and reviewed all week, […]