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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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly Football vs Serra, CIF State Playoffs

Mike Guardabascio

Long Beach Poly is still playing football this December, and Christmas came early for the Jackrabbits and Southern California football fans. Usually the CIF State Regional Championship games–which come between the much-hyped CIF-SS title games and the CIF State championships–are a bit of a letdown, pitting Southern Section teams against City Section or San Diego […]

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Football: Compton Blanks Compton Centennial

JJ Fiddler

STORY BY MATT SIMON With the sun blazing for a 5 p.m. start on Friday the Compton Tarbabes shook off a shaky start to roll past crosstown rival Compton Centennial 40-0 in the season opener. “It’s our first game, so I knew we’d make some mistakes,” coach Calvin Bryant said. “We had a few players […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

Mike Guardabascio

Congratulations to all of our Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. This is our final awards for 2021; AOTW will return after the winter break. HIGH SCHOOL Sierra Sythe, Millikan Soccer Millikan’s Sierra Sythe earns a second consecutive AOTW honor for another big performance last week. Sythe scored […]