Jason Official Associated Press release following today’s USAV board meeting in Holyoke, Mass. HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Todd Rogers showed up at the USA Volleyball board meeting to deliver their message in person: Beach players need more control over their...

Daniel Dan Madden with his best Daniel Larusso. View the intricate construction process here. Daniel Renee Cleary keeping with the theme “sexy over scary” for the ladies. Top, bottom and boots all hand crafted. Daniel Mr. Incredible. Literally. I found him. That’s not a costume. Turns...

Keaton In honor of Halloween, I’ve taken the blog to the land of brown and orange. (Or, reddish orange… I tried) In honor of my incredibly awesome nephew and Halloween, I’ve posted a photo of him as the Sith Lord himself, ‘Darth Keaton.’ In honor of my brand new niece and her birth...

The site of our fate - yet to be determined. Hopefully this guy is on the board and votes "Beach." What I’ve learned in the last 72 hours: • David Schreff was willing to answer my phone    call. • USA Volleyball has an annual budget between 12     million and 13 million dollars. • There...

You'd certainly never know the majority of those Gold Medals were won on the beach, would you? What were my exact words? I’m trying to recall. Was it… “There is a serious disconnect between the beach game and the indoor game and I’m not sure where it stems from or how to fix it? At all...

Quick explanation as to what’s going on at hansstolfus.com. First off, in honor of my wife’s Starbucks ad to the right – yes, that’s what could be described as an advertisement, even though it merely links to a Twitter page I developed for her and generates zero revenue – I decided to...

Before the injury... In the spring of 1999, I met a wonderful little volleyball player out of Long Beach State and decided that thirty-minutes was the appropriate amount of time to thoroughly know someone before you took them to a giant bar in San Diego in order to burglarize Karch Kiraly, Miller Lite,...

Be good Zoot. Don't let that kid who now claims to "own you," take you down the wrong alleyway... There’s a new plan of attack this fall for yours truly that I honestly couldn’t be more excited about. First step is to sell the Zoot Scoot. I know, I just bought it, and I love it, and...

I don’t know why, but I guess this is what I always wanted music videos to be like. A montage of images encompassing the beautiful things that surround us daily. The film editing doesn’t necessarily need to be obscure or ambiguous; it just needs to find a way to capture the quiet that...

  Mine is jacked up from here to, well... there.   Work so you can live? Live so you can work? Or, just work, commute, be a rat in the race, read the paper, eat Chinese takeout, get upset when you scuff your shoes, workout once a week, enjoy long stares up at corner light posts during walks to the...