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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Football: Cabrillo Drills Hawkins in Season Opening Win

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The562’s coverage of Cabrillo Athletics is sponsored by the Cohn Family. The thing about underdogs is, sometimes they bite back. In Friday night’s season opener on the West Side, Cabrillo did just that with a 56-8 thumping of Hawkins High. Cabrillo lost last year’s opener at Hawkins, 36-0, and finished 1-8 in their first season […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs Lynwood, CIF Basketball

Mike Guardabascio

We’ve got some great shots of the Jackrabbits’ exciting win, taken by photographers Art O’Neill and John Napalan.

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Football: Compton Readying For Unique Season

Mike Guardabascio

While six of the seven teams in the Moore League are in the Long Beach Unified School District, the seventh—Compton High—has had to deal with an even more bizarre offseason than the rest. Compton’s school district didn’t allow its programs to begin doing offseason conditioning until a few weeks ago (several months after the LBUSD’s […]