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 Baseball: Lakewood Pushes Past Los Osos

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The Lakewood baseball program boasts more history than most high school baseball programs in California. Their head coach, Walter “Spud” O’Neil, is a walking testament to that fact, having won 910 games and counting–800 of them with the Lancers. But it’s been five seasons since Lakewood won a playoff game, a fact that weighed heavily […]

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Long Beach Football Schedule Week Two

Mike Guardabascio

Here’s the football games coming up in Long Beach this Friday. Click here for our coverage of the first week of action. Long Beach Poly (1-0) vs. Lakewood (0-0) @ Cabrillo, 7 p.m. Millikan (0-1) @ Jordan (0-0), 7 p.m. Compton (0-0) @ Wilson (0-0), 7 p.m. St. Anthony (0-0) vs. Mary Star of the […]

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Lacrosse Preview: Millikan Rams

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The Rams boys’ team was drawing plenty of preseason buzz as a possible inaugural Moore League champion, and an opening-day win over Wilson helped boost that sentiment. Head coach Thomas Sutfin has high hopes. “We’re young but we fully expect to earn a spot in the CIF playoffs this season,” he said. Sutfin is excited […]