This week on What Up, Long Beach?! Mike & JJ talk to a local sport/performance psychologist who helps explain how mental fitness is changing athletics.
Wilson High boys swim title streak is the best in the nation
The Bruins have won 47 consecutive league championships, including 2019, making it the longest active league title streak, in any sport, in California or anywhere else in the country.
PODCAST: Top Long Beach sports news this week
This week on What Up, Long Beach?!, we’re running down the most important local sports news this week before talking about watching the Women’s World Cup in Long Beach.
Wilson’s Chris Betts goes viral with home run derby bat flip
“The (first bat toss) was not at all planned,” Betts said. “It was just the emotions clicking over and I totally blacked out. It was everything man, and it all hit me at once.”
PODCAST: Chris Betts, JP Crawford & new Dirtbags coach
Happy Summer, and welcome to our All Baseball episode!
Call him Coach: McCullouch Jr. makes a name for himself winning titles and changing lives
He’s not only forcing Nelson Academy to buy a bigger trophy case, he’s mentoring kids in the heart of the city.
IN PICTURES: Skaters soar through Long Beach with Olympic ambitions at the Dew Tour
This was the first ever U.S.-based Olympic qualifying event for skateboarding, which is a new sport for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
‘The opposite of coddling’: Long Beach Little League honors Al Huntley
LBLL renamed its main field after Huntley, who’s given nearly 50 years of service to the organization
IN PICTURES: Long Beach Little League calls it a season
While waiting for a ceremony to honor longtime volunteer Al Huntley, kids will be kids
PODCAST: Mike & JJ want to fix all-league lists
This week on What Up, Long Beach?!, Mike and JJ discuss what’s wrong with these all-league lists.