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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Football: Frustrated Long Beach Poly Sat Idle With No Opponent

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It was a frustrating week for the top football team in the city. The Long Beach Poly football team (3-0, 2-0) sat idle on Friday after Jordan canceled due to a lack of available healthy players. The empty week wasn’t for a lack of trying–the Jackrabbits said they made contact with dozens of schools who […]

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STANDINGS: Long Beach Baseball

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s standings, schedule, and rankings stories are sponsored by International City Plumbers. With just two weeks of play left until the playoffs, here’s where things stand in the Long Beach baseball world with a list of this week’s games below the standings box. Note: Standings based on reported results. Coaches can report scores/weekly results as well […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs Windward CIF Basketball

Mike Guardabascio

We’ve got some great photos from the game taken by photographer Art O’Neill.