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.
Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee is familiar with Compton’s double-wing offense, which relies on punishing run after punishing run, with some misdirection thrown in. Barbee dialed up the right defense for his Jackrabbits, who platooned several defensive lineman and employed eight different D-Line combinations to shut down the Compton attack, which was limited […]
STORY BY MATT SIMON As the sun begins to set, a golden hue shines on the Compton mural that leads to the entrance of the football field at Compton High School. The sound of whistles echo toward Oleander Avenue, a sound that hasn’t been heard in the nearby neighborhood in November for 11 years. Coach […]
The Long Beach Poly boys’ cross country team qualified for the CIF State Finals for the third consecutive year on Saturday. The Jackrabbits finished fifth at the CIF Southern Section Finals in Riverside, qualifying them for next weekend’s state meet in Fresno (the top seven teams in each division qualify). “It wasn’t pretty time-wise, but […]
