JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2022-23 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. Long Beach State President Jane Close Conoley has announced that Ted Kadowaki will serve as the interim athletics director after Andy Fee stepped down earlier this month. Kadowaki served as LBSU’s fiscal manager 1998-2005 before moving to the university’s […]
“I don’t think you could script it much better.” That’s the first thing Long Beach State men’s basketball coach Dan Monson said after his team edged UC Riverside in overtime 73-72 on Saturday at Walter Pyramid. And he’s right. The victory clinched the first Big West Conference regular season title for LBSU since 2013, and […]
