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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of […]
After Long Beach Poly’s season-ending loss to Windward in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, it was a long time before Jackrabbits coach Shelton Diggs could bring himself to leave the Poly locker room. It’s the kind of loss that haunts a coach, and leaves a team spending the entire […]
After a canceled 2020 season and months of waiting for answers, the two-time defending national champion Long Beach State men’s volleyball team will officially get a chance to defend its crown. The team released its schedule this week, which will be a 10-game Big West conference slate, with the Big West Tournament and potentially the […]