8:00am | One of the most important strategic decisions made in the three-year history of the lbpost.com was the commitment to provide our readers with local sports coverage. Long Beach produces an astounding array of talented athletes in every sport, and we saw the opportunity to take one giant leap forward by figuring out a way to cover every sports team in the City.
In March of 2008, we launched LBPOSTsports.com and began providing game scores and analysis for all local sports – from high school basketball to collegiate tennis and everything in between. LBPOSTSports.com managing editors Mike Guardabascio and J.J. Fiddler were also hired to run our sports operation and the course of Long Beach sports coverage was immediately altered for the better.
The decision to pursue sports coverage instantly increased our content produced by the lbpost.com and expanded our brand to reach an entirely new segment of Long Beach.
Mike and J.J. injected local sports coverage with knowledgeable insight, inside sources that led to several breaking stories and – of course – the video highlights that would come to be the website’s trademark. They also hosted SportsNight, a weekly internet podcast talk show.
Since that official launch date in 2008, the LBPOSTsports.com writers have been responsible for providing such outstanding work as the incredible tale of record-breaking Poly High distance runner Dynasty Gammage (click here), stunning video highlights of Lakewood football’s first victory over Poly in 28 years (click here), and recently breaking the story of the rift between Long Beach State and historic Shore Aquatics (click here).
In fact, Mike and J.J. were recognized just last night during the Long Beach Century Club Awards Banquet with the Keith Cordes Award for best promotion of the city through sports. We at the lbpost.com are extremely proud of the outstanding work that Mike and J.J. have done and look forward to many more years of providing first place sports coverage.
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