National Signing Day has become a day in which gaudy press conferences and professionally-produced videos transfix the nation’s sports fans, as they put their lives on hold to find out if their team landed the five-star, 17-year-old athlete that will change the trajectory of their favorite teams. Today, Long Beach City College hosted a much more modest event celebrating student-athletes from the school’s sports teams.
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CSULB Professor Co-Authors Study on Relationship Between Racial Bias, Opposition to Paying Student Athletes
A recent study co-authored by Cal State Long Beach associate professor Kevin Wallsten sought to identify what factors shaped the belief systems of those for or against compensating college athletes, focusing in on the race of those surveyed and which side of the argument they agreed with.
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Long Beach City College’s Football Season Comes to Close with Loss in SoCal Championship
The 2015 Long Beach City College Football season, the best in years for the Vikings, came to a close Saturday with a 43-17 loss against Saddleback College in the 2015 Southern California Championship game.
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LBCC Men’s Water Polo Snags State Championship from Rival Golden West
The Long Beach City College (LBCC) Men’s Water Polo team lost to rival Golden West four times during the season, making their recent win and taking of the 2015 CCCAA State Water Polo Championship an even sweeter victory.
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Long Beach City College Vikings Pack on Football Honors, Look to State Champs
As the Long Beach City College (LBCC) vikings (10-1) prepare for this weekend’s Southern California Championships at Saddleback College, they discovered they were on the receiving end of 16 Southern California Football Association National Division All-Central League postseason honors.
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Five Questions: JuJu Smith-Schuster
After establishing himself at Long Beach Poly and being called a “once-in-a-lifetime” athlete by his Poly head coach Raul Lara, wide receiver John “JuJu” Smith-Schuster chose to play college ball at USC. Smith-Schuster took a few moments away from his preparation for this weekend’s game against the Oregon Ducks to answer a few questions for the Long Beach Post.
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Seven St. Anthony High School Student Athletes Commit to National Universities
Seven St. Anthony High School students have signed national letters of intent to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level, the high school announced Friday.
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Get Your Zumba On for Free in the 6th District Starting This Weekend
Free Zumba Classes will be held in the Sixth District this winter, thanks to Councilman Dee Andrews, who has been hosting a free Zumba event in October for the past two years in honor of breast cancer awareness.
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Long Beach Poly Beats Up on Millikan, Gets Drummed Out of Playoffs
After being forced to forfeit three League games due to an ineligible transfer player, being on the losing end of an envelope draw to determine the Moore League’s third CIF playoff berth and being passed over by the CIF for an at-large playoff spot, Poly fought every second during their last game of the season, culminating in a vindictive 70-3 victory over Millikan.
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Cyclists Take on the Streets of Long Beach in City’s Second-Ever Critical Mass Event
Bicyclists took to the streets last Friday evening, organized by anonymous individuals through Critical Mass Long Beach in celebration of the first Critical Mass in Long Beach that took place in 2010.