{"id":448791,"date":"2026-08-31T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:08:14","slug":"prep-talk-long-beach-veterans-memorial-stadium-bids-goodbye-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448791\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Long Beach Veterans Memorial Stadium bids goodbye for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long Beach Veterans Memorial Stadium hosted its final high school football game Friday night. Long Beach Poly fell to Yorba Linda 30-13. Now it will be demolished and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-23\/long-beach-veterans-stadium-to-be-demolished-for-sports-complex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replaced as part of a $250 million sports complex project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was around for 70 years and the site for the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2001-oct-07-sp-54496-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic Long Beach Poly vs. De La Salle football <\/a>game in 2001 that attracted more than 17,000 fans. Long Beach City College played a final game at the stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The new stadium is expected to be ready by 2029, with fields for football, soccer and track as part of an 18-acre sports complex. The project is funded by a Long Beach City College bond measure.<\/p>\n<p>The new stadium might even be able to host state track and field and football championships in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach Veterans Memorial Stadium hosted its final high school football game Friday night. Long Beach Poly fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34583,6308,25085,949,15217,131,14370,133,132,23677,1459,15214,6310,595,1083,177663,21670,2829],"class_list":["post-448791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-daily-look","tag-field","tag-final-game","tag-football","tag-high-school-sport","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-city-college","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-poly","tag-part","tag-positive-happening","tag-prep-talk","tag-saturday","tag-soccer","tag-sport-complex-project","tag-stadium","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}