What Up, Long Beach?!

This week on the podcast we’re updating you on the latest COVID-19 news for Long Beach sports and schools (change is coming!) before interviewing Long Beach Poly boys’ basketball star Peyton Watson. The junior talks about learning from Last Dance and being recruited as one of the best players in his class.

15:30 Interview With Long Beach Poly Basketball Star Peyton Watson

38:30 Quarantine Recommendations

This week on the podcast Mike and JJ talk to the baseball player brothers Tai and Ricky Tiedemann. Tai also played football at Long Beach Poly, and is currently a minor league baseball player. Ricky is a senior at Lakewood and is about to get drafted.

08:30 Interview With The Brothers Tiedemann

28:00 Quarantine Recommendations (Last Dance)

This week on the podcast Mike and JJ talk to Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee and soccer coach Mauricio Ingrassia about how the Beach is adjusting to all of the recent NCAA proposals and changes.

03:30 Interview With Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee

07:00 Interview With Long Beach Soccer Coach Mauricio Ingrassia

24:30 Quarantine Recommendations

We talked to CIF Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod about how high school sports will be restarted and what that will look like.

01:00 “The 562 Classic” Is Back with 2012 Long Beach Poly Football vs. St. John Bosco

06:00 Interview With CIF Southern Section Commissioner Rob Wigod

44:20 Quarantine Recommendations

Are you missing sports like we are? We’ve decided to go back and re-record some of our favorite Long Beach highlight videos we’ve produced over the last 12 years. This week we’re starting with the 2012 Moore League baseball showdown between Lakewood’s Shane Watson and Wilson’s Chase De Jong.

00:00 Announcing “The 562 Classics” Video Highlights Series

07:00 Interview With Wilson alum Chase De Jong

28:15 Good News From Positive Columns

34:00 Quarantine Activity Recommendations

This week we’re are talking to Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee about the Jackrabbits, and to Long Beach State athletics director Andy Fee about breaking news from the NCAA.

01:00 California Schools Closing For The Year?

09:30 Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee

40:30 NCAA news and interview with LBSU’s Andy Fee

This week we're talking about The562.org hosting a video game tournament for Long Beach high school students.

04:45 ESports Kids Trained For Quarantine Survival

07:00 Juju Smith Schuster & John Ross Playing Video Games

13:00 More ESports Tournaments

13:50 Preview For “Smash Bros. Tourney”

14:00 Interview With Tournament Organizer Drew Helms

28:00 News From LBUSD & NCAA

This week on the show we're updating all of the latest news from the Long Beach Unified School District, the CIF State office, the Long Beach State Athletics Department and more.

This week on the show we're updating the latest information on how Long Beach sports is dealing with Coronavirus by cancellation, postponement, new rules and more.

This week on the show we’re wrapping up Long Beach basketball season by talking about our favorite championship games. We’ll also catch up with some Wilson softball players after their upset win at Lakewood.

03:45 Question O’ The Week: Are the Dirtbags really this good?

12:00 Athletes O’ The Week

16:50 Quote O’ The Week: Wilson Softball Wins Moore League Opener

20:40 Games O’ The Week: The End Of CIF Basketball Season

24:15 List O’ The Week: Favorite Championship Basketball Games

38:25 Lakers/Clippers Updates

45:05 Recommendations (“imfranksivero” and “Science Vs.”)