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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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Dominates In First-Place Game With Millikan

Mike Guardabascio

STORY AND VIDEO BY MATT SIMON Heading into Friday’s Moore League showdown at Ron Palmer Pavilion, Long Beach Poly and Millikan both came into the contest boasting impressive accomplishments midway through the season. Long Beach Poly sat on top of the CIF Division 1 polls, while Millikan was undefeated and No. 3 in the Division […]

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Millikan Hires Curtis Boyer As New Basketball Coach

Mike Guardabascio

Millikan has hired Curtis Boyer to be its new boys’ basketball coach, boys’ athletic director Kevin Marchael confirmed this week. Boyer, a Narbonne grad and South Bay native, is a longtime local AAU coach who will be a walk-on with the Rams in his first head high school position. “He’s a local guy with ties […]

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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Pulls Away From Wilson

Mike Guardabascio

The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team has not lost a Moore League contest since 2008, but head coach Carl Buggs admitted that this year the gap between his Jackrabbits and league foes like Wilson and Millikan was not as big as it’s been in years past, due in large part to the Jackrabbits’ inexperienced […]