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.
Despite being a smaller group than in recent years, Major League Baseball players with ties to Long Beach have already made a wide variety of headlines on MLB.com during this truncated regular season. Lakewood High alum J.P. Crawford, 25, is having a breakout year with the Seattle Mariners, and the shortstop was the subject of […]
St. Anthony head coach Alicia Lemau’u is going into her eighth year coaching the Saints, and she’s excited about this season. Her team returns most of its core from last year’s CIF-SS Division 5 semifinal run as well as a second-round state tournament appearance, and they’re hungry for more success. “My focus is just on […]
