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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CIF-SS Girls’ Basketball Playoff Brackets Released

Mike Guardabascio

Perhaps no high school sport in Long Beach has been stronger over the last decade than girls’ basketball. The city has seen Long Beach Poly, Millikan, Wilson and St. Anthony win CIF Southern Section championships and the Jackrabbits and Saints win state titles. The city’s strength in the sport was rewarded on Sunday when the […]

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PODCAST: Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Hits Pause After Positive COVID-19 Test

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We talk to Long Beach State Athletic Director Andy Fee about what happens now that a non student-athlete within the men’s basketball program tested positive for COVID-19 and has shown symptoms. The Beach will have to forfeit games and shut down practice for at least the next two weeks. S4E65 – A Pause For Men’s […]

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Baseball Column Interns Long Beach Poly Softball The562.org

COLUMN: Pride at Former Interns Having On-Field Success

Mike Guardabascio

When we started our student internship program at the562.org, we noticed an immediate trend in the applicants we were receiving from Long Beach Unified School District students. Most of the kids who applied for the paid internship program were athletes, and most of them were…well, they weren’t star athletes. They were athletes like JJ, Tyler […]