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.
For most of the last century, high school baseball teams who learned they were taking on a Long Beach opponent in the playoffs were scared–or at least not very happy about it. From 1914 through 2008, a Moore League baseball team appeared in the CIF Southern Section’s highest division baseball championship game 38 times out […]
The recipe for postseason success has been classic and simple for Jordan football. The Panthers have run the ball, stopped the run and played better in the second half of all three playoff wins that sends them to their first ever CIF Southern Section championship game. Jordan will face Northwood in the Division 11 final […]
