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.
http://The562.org

Related Articles

Traores
Basketball Jordan Long Beach Poly Millikan Soccer Water Polo Wilson

Today’s Long Beach CIF-SS Playoff Schedule

Mike Guardabascio

The winter playoffs begin in earnest tonight for a ton of Long Beach teams with opening round contests for boys’ basketball, girls’ soccer, and girls’ water polo. Boys’ Basketball Division 4AA: Jordan vs. Montclair, 7 p.m. Division 1: St. Anthony at Damien, 7 p.m. Division 1: Long Beach Poly at Mater Dei, 7 p.m. Division […]

DSC_0141a
Basketball Long Beach State

Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Upsets UC Irvine

JJ Fiddler

The biggest upset of the Big West men’s basketball season happened at Walter Pyramid on Wednesday night where last-place Long Beach State took down first-place UC Irvine. The Beach used a great defensive effort to beat the Anteaters 63-56 and snap their 16-game league winning streak. “I thought our guys defended for 40 minutes,” LBSU […]

108A0466
Basketball St. Anthony

CIF State Basketball: St. Anthony Falls at Notre Dame

Dante Williams

A hard fought season came to a close for St Anthony as they dropped the second round of state playoffs 66-60 to Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. “It was hard. We had 32 minutes, but we probably executed for 21 of them,” said Saints head coach Alan Mitchell. “It came down some possessions and misreads on […]