They’re invading Long Beach—Los Cheetahs, that is. And if you’re wondering if there is any association with Chester Cheetah, the mascot of the ever-delicious, finger-dyeing snack Cheetos, well, you’re absolutely right.
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Pop Warner Pulls Plug on North Long Beach Season, Championship Hopes
The North Long Beach Junior Midget Panthers should be vying for a top seed in the this year’s playoffs. Instead, they are reminded to bring a change of clothes for after Saturday’s game. The league will be collecting their gear—win, lose or tie. The decision was made earlier this month to pull the plug on North Long Beach Pop Warner’s season due to a league-wide failure to pay back-dues, effectively ending what may have been a championship run for the Junior Midgets.
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Grand Prix Tickets On Sale Monday
Tickets for the 41st Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, set to run April 17 to 19, 2015 in Downtown Long Beach, will go on sale Monday at 10AM.
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Mud, Sweat and Beers Highlight KROSS-TOBER Fest, Long Beach’s Most Entertaining Bicycle Race
Southern California Cross brings you KROSS-TOBER Fest, Race #4 of the Prestige Series. On Sunday, October 19, strap on your lederhosen, bring out your steins and celebrate this day of cycling and merrymaking.
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IN PICTURES: 26,000 Beat the Streets at the 2014 Long Beach Marathon
On the cloudy and (thankfully) cool morning of Sunday, October 12, over 26,000 racers hit the pavement to pound out the results of months—and at least a few pairs of running shoes (or bicycle tires)—worth of training and preparation.
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Former Jackrabbit Star Hershel Dennis Is Finding Second Life in the Rugby Scrum
Hershel Dennis was part of what many still consider one of the greatest classes of high school prospects to come out of one school in the same year. Long Beach Poly’s 2001 roster was littered with top-end talent destined for Division I college programs. Nearly every level of the team could boast an All-American or All-Everything position player.
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The Bicycle Stand Race Club Unites Long Beach Cyclists of All Categories
The Bicycle Stand Race Club, a team comprised of six or so athletes and counting, is a shining example of what a local and independently owned business can bring to the community.
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US Sumo Open to Bring Over 60 Competitors from Across the Globe to Long Beach
Get ready to rumble, Long Beach; the sumo wrestlers are coming, as over 60 competitors meet on September 20 to compete in the largest sumo competition on the planet outside of Japan.
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Deep, Talented LBSU Men’s Basketball Team Faces Tough 2014/2015 Schedule
Another Fall semester means another chance for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team to make a run at returning to the NCAA tournament, something it hasn’t done since the 2011 season. However, the return of last year’s leading scorer Mike Caffey and an infusion of a talented recruiting haul and transfers from other programs could see the 49ers’ season continue into the madness of March.
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Completed Roberto Clemente Biopic, Filmed in Long Beach, Set for First Public Screening
Richard Rossi grew up in Pittsburgh emulating the iconic Pirates’ right fielder Roberto Clemente. He’d attend home games in the dollar seats at Forbes Field where he learned the idiosyncrasies of his childhood hero before replicating them as a youth on the baseball diamond. It was only natural that he cried his eyes out when Clemente perished in a plane crash in 1972, and now as a director and actor, that he becomes the first to dramatize the Puerto Rican superstar’s life.