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.
As Dan Rydell said in Sports Night, “They say it’s always calmest before the storm. That’s not true. I’m a serious sailor. It isn’t calm before the storm. Stuff happens.” Leo Corona knows what “stuff” means. The Cabrillo senior is in the midst of an emotionally turbulent year, but he woke up last Saturday ready […]
It’s a game that has one of those “make or break” feelings for both teams, as Long Beach Poly and Serra prepare to face off at Veterans Memorial Stadium at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night. The game, which will be televised by Fox Sports Prime Ticket, will tell fans a lot about both teams. For […]
The Long Beach Poly boys’ and girls’ basketball teams have dominated the Moore League for the last decade-plus, but in that time have never faced anything like the challenge they undertook over the last week. Both programs–like most programs in the city–had to deal with a COVID-19 shutdown. That necessitated a ton of rescheduled games, […]