Sports

• What Up Long Beach?!

August 17, 2018

PODCAST: Pro athletes giving back, high school football previews

by JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio    in Sports

This week, JJ and Mike are talking about Long Beach’s young professional athletes like JuJu Smith-Schuster about giving back to the community.

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• the562

August 16, 2018

These pro football, baseball and basketball players are giving back to Long Beach

by Mike Guardabascio and JJ Fiddler    in Sports

For decades Long Beach was known as a place where prominent alumni left the community, and often didn’t return. That trend has changed over the last 10 years.

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• local sports

August 10, 2018

VIDEO: Coach lets girls soccer players shave his head after national championship win

by JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio    in Sports

Late last month, the Beach FC 15-Under Girls’ Development Player League won the 2018 US Youth Soccer National Championship.

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• What Up Long Beach?!

August 10, 2018

PODCAST: Moore League football gets underway, local youth sports teams celebrate national championships

by JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio    in Sports

JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio are here talking Long Beach, Calif. sports as Moore League football gets underway this month while local youth sports teams celebrate national championships. We have interviews with coaches, parents and players from Shore Aquatics...

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• the562

August 9, 2018

These 5 Long Beach youth sports clubs have dominated this summer

by JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio    in Sports

Five Long Beach youth sports organizations—baseball, softball, water polo, soccer and rugby—are competing in multiple national tournaments this summer.

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• obituary

July 27, 2018

Long Beach legend Willie Brown died Thursday of cancer at 76

by Tim Grobaty    in Sports

Brown was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Dec. 2, 1940. His family moved to Long Beach when he was 2. His family lived in a duplex with the family of another Poly star, Dee Andrews, now the city’s vice...

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• Dew Tour
• skateboarding

June 30, 2018

IN PICTURES: The world’s best skaters compete in the Dew Tour in Long Beach

by Thomas Cordova    in Sports

Team Challenge Park at the Dew Tour in Long Beach June 30, 2018. More than 80 of the world’s best male and female skaters compete at Dew Tour in competitions that include men’s and women’s individual Pro and Amateur...

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• world cup 2018

June 12, 2018

Five Places in Long Beach to Catch the 2018 FIFA World Cup

by Yakov Lysenko    in Sports

On Thursday Russia and Saudi Arabia will kick off the first match of the FIFA World Cup. This year it will be held in Russia—for the first time in the nation’s history—from June 14 to July 15.

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• triathlon

May 22, 2018

City Announces Inaugural Legacy Triathlon Event Beginning Next Year

by City News Service    in Sports

USA Triathlon and Long Beach officials announced today that a triathlon will be held annually beginning in 2019 at the city's Alamitos Beach, with the event eventually expanding to a two-day “multisport” festival.

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• LBSU Athletics

May 17, 2018

Three Long Beach State Athletics Teams Among Those Recognized by NCAA for Academic Success

by City News Service    in Sports

Three teams each from Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount and UC Irvine also earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for having multiyear Academic Progress Rate scores in the top 10 percent of their sport, the NCAA announced...

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