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Dear Long Beach—after 10 wonderful years of “What up Long Beach?!”, articles and videos, we were notified today that we’ve been laid off by the Press-Telegram and SoCal News Group.
Thanks for your support—it’s been our pleasure and our privilege.
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WHAT?!?! Elysia Laramie with tremendous work to get by the defense & her cross is finished by an UNBELIEVABLE effort from Lena Silano!! 😳😳😳
We’re tied, 2-2, 88th minute. Goal of the year candidate?
@NCAASoccer
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Justin Herbert at Long Beach Poly today to speak to
@LBPoly_Football
and present a check to help pay for their CIFSS championship rings
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BREAKING: Star quarterback Nico Iamaleava has transferred home to Long Beach Poly and is enrolled as of today, according to the Iamaleava fam.
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STORY: The Long Beach Poly football team got to serve as NBC's scout team for the Super Bowl. The Jackrabbits went through a whole simulated Super Bowl Friday to help NBC lock in their camera angles and production process
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MAJOR. LEAGUER. Congrats to one of the city's finest on making his dreams come true today,
@jp_crawford
called up to the Phillies
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STORY: Hometown hero and Long Beach Poly alum JuJu Smith-Schuster is a Super Bowl champ. Nine Jackrabbits have now brought home eight Super Bowl titles, with 13 of 58 Super Bowls (22%) featuring a Poly alum.
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NBA champion!!!
@1jordanbell
becomes the first son of Long Beach to get an NBA title. Long Beach Poly now has alums w NBA, NFL, MLB, and Olympic championships.
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We are thrilled to announce that the LBUSD Board of Education unanimously approved a five-year contract to strengthen and extend our paid high school internship program. Thanks to everyone who's worked so hard to make this happen and cheers to the future in Long Beach!
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Nobody does Signing Day like Long Beach Poly! 27 signees today
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BREAKING: Long Beach Poly basketball star and UCLA signee Peyton Watson has just been named a 2021 McDonald's All-American
STORY:
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STORY: Long Beach Poly is getting a major renovation to its weight room thanks to
@AustinEkeler
and his foundation, as well as alums
@Jurrellc
and
@TeamJuJu
.
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MEHKI JORDAN WINS IT!!!
27-24 Poly over Orange Lutheran in overtime!! What a game!!
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DeSean Jackson and JuJu Smith-Schuster, both Poly alums, are two of the top five receiving yards leaders in the NFL this year 😳😳😳
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Darius Curry 23/30 363 yards 4 TDs to four different receivers. Four receivers over 50 yards six receivers over 30 yards
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RIP to the legend Kobe Bryant. We are in shock. Just got to see him in the Pyramid last month for the Oregon/Long Beach State women's basketball game. Mike saw him make his first appearance as a Laker in the Pyramid at the Summer League.
This is unreal. This hurts.
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—Got laid off
—Heard support from thousands of our friends
—Started our own non-profit and launched
—Raised our first year’s budget
—Broke every traffic record we’ve ever set in our last 11 years on the job
#2018Milestones
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Long Beach State men's volleyball becomes the first team in school history to win back to back NCAA titles!
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MaxPreps has named Long Beach Poly the nation's top producer of pro athletes, with 86 NFL/MLB/NBA alums--that's 12 more than second place and 37 more than third place.
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Got texts from our guys
@TeamJuJu
and
@JoelBitonio
that their Pro Bowl helmets have stickers of their high schools on the back of them. How cool is this? Long Beach stand up!
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Long Beach Poly signing day, Daylen Austin signs with Oregon and Dom Lolesio with Arizona
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If you knew what
@1jordanbell
has overcome in his life—seeing him with
@BarackObama
is emotional!
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LB Poly was led out of the tunnel by their Girl’s Flag Football team on homecoming night! 🏈
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Long Beach Poly! 120 CIF titles and 37 State titles later, welcome to the 21st Century. Awesome shots courtesy
@t0ddalexander
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BREAKING: St. Anthony has hired former Long Beach Poly coaching great Raul Lara as its new head football coach
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Jerry Jones’ $200 million + yacht parked in Long Beach waters
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Long Beach Poly. Long Beach Jordan. St Anthony. Compton. All going to the ship—Moore League with three teams playing for championships next week. Let’s gooooooo
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FINAL: Jordan 26, Twentynine Palms 20
J-Town going to the ‘ship!!!!
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Final stat line for
@corral_matt
in three quarters of work: 25 for 39 for 457 yards and five touchdowns. Also ran in another two
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Jordan football is going to a CIF semifinal for the first time in history!
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Not a single person from Long Beach is claiming Moreno Valley lmao
Everybody from Moreno Valley now 〽️😭nah y’all from LA & Long Beach remember?🙅🏾♂️
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Long Beach Poly product Aaron Shampklin is leading the Ivy League in rusning, yards per carry and yards from scrimmage as a sophomore. Read the emotional story of how he went from Long Beach to Harvard
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Unreal!! Serra answers with a 75 yard score. They take a 21-17 lead. Poly ball back with 3:05 left in tbe game
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Los Angeles Dodgers organist Dieter Ruehle will be playing during the majority of Long Beach State Dirtbags games this season at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field
Feature:
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Long Beach wins! Long Beach wins! Long Beach wins! National champs!
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To all the Long Beach kids graduating this week: go out into the world and rep your city with pride! The journey is just beginning, we’re so proud of you guys and so excited to see what you do next.
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Mayfair alum Justin Turner and Poly alum Chase Utley headed to World Series. Fifth straight year a local product makes it to WS
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The California state superintendent just said that schools won't re-open this school year. So sad for all the high school seniors, but really for all of us.
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BREAKING NEWS:
@LBSUAthletics
has been cleared to bring all sports back on Feb. 15
Full story coming
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BREAKING: Five-star Long Beach Poly quarterback Nico Iamaleava picks Tennessee!
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Wonder how many hundreds of miles of bleachers were run in the stands at Poly over the last 80 years. They are being torn down today
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Long Beach is different
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We're baaaaaack!
Go to the new website to find out how to subscribe and support the return of Long Beach's best sports coverage!
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Didn’t think we’d get one this year. It’s officially football season in Long Beach
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Fun fact: Poly is so old there was actually a shooting range under those bleachers that used to be used for live ammunition training in the WW2 era
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Exclusive look at plans for Long Beach Poly High School facilities improvements, paid for by Measure E. Field construction begins in Dec.
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It was crazy in the Pyramid tonight as No 1 Long Beach State remained undefeated with a win over UCLA. Broke the attendance record by 2,000
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Less than a week after being told he and LBSU are parting ways when the season is over, Dan Monson isn’t done quite yet. LBSU back in NCAA Tournament for first time since 2012
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Kobe Bryant is in the Pyramid to see Oregon women's basketball, who are up big on Long Beach State at halftime, 46-26
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Long Beach Poly coaching legend Don Norford was one of just two coaches inducted in the inaugural National High School Track and Field Hall of Fame class
Congrats to the most accomplished coach in CA history and a shining example of LB's sports community
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Veterans Memorial Stadium. Long Beach, CA
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You aren’t dreaming
@CabrilloLb
, it’s real! Full video article and photo gallery coming soon
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The situation facing the LBUSD highlights the gap between the two Long Beach experiences. We have suburban parents yelling that the district needs to close down and urban parents begging them not to bc they don’t have alternative child care.
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Cool moment at Millikan as
@vincestaples
dropped by to give Rams coach Romeo Pellum two Super Bowl tickets as a thanks for his work in the community. Rome is taking his mom so don’t ask to go with him lol
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No employer has ever asked if your diploma came from a D1 or D2 or NAIA athletic school during a job interview. Go get that degree!
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The greatest class in school history raises the NCAA trophy for the second time
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COULD YOU END IT ANY OTHER WAY!
Lakewood defense comes up with two stops and the final one punches their ticket to the CIF Championship! John Ford Stadium next week!
Lakewood 24, Rancho Vede 19
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Undefeated since 1991! lmao
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1600 Atlantic over there 👀👀
Winningest high school football programs of all-time in all 50 states.🏆
✍️🎥
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IT’S OVER!!!! The Beach complete the comeback to defeat the Trojans 84-79.
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STORY: Long Beach Poly volleyball star Rylie McGinest commits to USC
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FEATURE by
@JJfiddler
: These
@LBSUAthletics
alums both had bad experiences with the police. They decided to be the change they wanted to see in law enforcement, and 26 years later they're both
@LAPDHQ
Commanders.
STORY:
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BREAKING: Long Beach State's Bohl Diamond at Blair Field will play host to a piece of the Angels' Summer Camp for the first three weeks of July
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Born in Long Beach
@chloekimsnow
adds her name to the long list of Olympic medalists from the LBC
SHE HAS DONE IT!!!!! WITH A SCORE OF 98.25!!!
17-year-old
@chloekimsnow
grabs
#GOLD
in
#snowboard
halfpipe at the 2018
#WinterOlympics
!
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Pads are on at Long Beach Poly today. Happy football season! Previews drop in one week, first games are a week from Thursday 👀👀
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The Lakewood football family is mourning the loss of Khalil Saleem, who was killed in a shooting at the Silverado Park basketball courts over the weekend. Saleem was 17 years old.
Our love and condolences to Saleem's family and to the Lancers
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Long Beach—yesterday you spoke to us, and we listened. Stay tuned, we’ll be in touch. Sooner than later.
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RIP Lamarion Upchurch, a Cabrillo freshman and a well-like football player. Our prayers go out to his mother and family.
Lamarion Upchurch, 15, was gunned down early Sunday morning. At a vigil in Long Beach, at the spot where he was killed, his friends remembered a talented kid with a bright future
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FINAL: Long Beach Poly 68, Harvard-Westlake 52. Jackrabbit girls are CIF champions!
That is the 120th CIF championship in school history
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STORY: DeSean Jackson was back at his alma mater Long Beach Poly recently where he surprised the Poly football team with brand new cleats as well as a shopping spree
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FINAL: Long Beach Poly 26, Narbonne 3.
The sweater.....is 2-0
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Colleges: please postpone graduation, don’t cancel it. It means too much to too many families to not see their daughters and sons walk across that stage. ❤️❤️
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28 carries for 162 yards and two TDs. Not bad for sophomore Devin Samples. Welcome to the limelight, kid.
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Team Snoop pulls off an improbable win. John Ross is a boss who loves the community. Vince Staples plays football exactly how u think he plays. Long Beach is the best.
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BREAKING: St. Anthony has named Alan Mitchell its new boys' basketball head coach. Mitchell has spent the last two seasons with the Saints as an assistant.
STORY:
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JADON MF JONES!!! Long Beach State buzzer beater to go to the Big West Championship tomorrow night. Long Beach wins 67-64
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RT if you used to run this table in the day 😂😂😂
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FINAL: Long Beach Poly 14, Crespi 11. Jackrabbits are CIFSS boys water polo champions! Their first title since 1929
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