DiPierro (left) and Grotowski are making a move in 2010. To be honest, I’ve been meaning to write this column for some time. After all, it’s not every year the AVP has two East Coast-based teams knocking on the door of the top ten. But for whatever reason, I just never found an appropriate...

2008 Belmar champions Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan look to repeat as champions. In order to begin this Belmar preview piece, I almost feel like I need to walk down the hallway to Canyon Ceman’s office to pick up and feel the exact weight of the key to the city firsthand. I know he’s got...

April Ross and Jen Kessy embrace afer winning their second straight AVP tournament. There are more than just two stories from this past weekend’s event in Virginia Beach. In fact, there are plenty more. Sure, Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena winning their first open together as a team is top shelf...

The AVP returned to Virginia Beach for the first time since 2001 with Friday's qualifier. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor and teammate Nicole Branagh will attempt to get back to their winning ways as the top-seeded women’s team in this weekend’s AVP NIVEA Tour Virginia Beach...

Sean Scott entered an East Coast event last season as the No. 1 seed with John Hyden. He'll do the same in Virginia Beach. As AVP Nation descends upon the eastern seaboard for the second and last time this season, I’m reminded of an era long forgotten. You see, the last time pro beach volleyball...

My wife and I have a spare bedroom. It has relatively nice furniture. You know: suede couch, chair and ottoman, two lamps, bedside table, cast iron bedframe, Simmons Beautyrest mattress, decorative comforter with matching pillow cases, a flat-out seriously cool dark wood/cast iron leaning desk, Japanese...

John Mayer and Jeff Nygaard celebrating their first and only win as a team in 2009. One year later... splitsville. Let’s be clear: this particular Hot Stove was meant to contain a video so viral it would have made the original Hot Stove back in December look like Avatar in 3D. It was miraculously shot...

Fans enjoying the action on court 1. There’s something you should probably know about me: I will never leave a concert or big game early to beat traffic. Ever. If cars are backed up for miles exiting a venue, generally speaking that means the show was actually worth seeing, and escaping with five minutes...

Mike Nelson dives for the ball during his match Friday against Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers. The story goes like this: in May of 2006, John Braunstein and I played what was thought to be a friendly “beach” volleyball tournament in St. George, Utah, at what we’ll call the behest of mutual friend...

Stellar AVP competition is one of many reasons to be in Huntington Beach June 3-6. If you read my Huntington Beach Preview from last month’s newsletter then you’re fully aware that watching movies by moonlight is arguably my favorite thing to do on this earth, and for years I’ve been teetering...