JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
After cancellations and postponements due to COVID-19, the Moore League Girls Wrestling Finals took place on Thursday at Millikan and everything went off without a hitch. “Clap it up for getting through league,” Millikan coach Blake Lovato said in a microphone before the award ceremony. The winners featured plenty of repeat champions as six individuals […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2022-23 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. This season has included plenty of games left unfinished by Long Beach State men’s basketball, but All-Big West guard Joel Murray helped the Beach close out a nail-biter against Idaho on Wednesday at Walter Pyramid. After building a 20-point lead […]
It was the kind of game that someone was going to feel sick to their stomach about all week. Long Beach City College and Mt. San Antonio College battled it out in triple-digit heat on Saturday afternoon at the Covina District Field, and in the end, it was the team that made the fewest mistakes […]
