The condensed version of this article appears in the August issue of Volleyball Magazine. As always, here’s the unedited copy… I recently flew home to visit my mother after finding out she had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Fortunately, after an emergency hysterectomy and two...

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The new hub for all things international beach volley... Thankfully, professional beach volleyball continues to take place overseas on the FIVB World Tour, despite the weekend’s happenings domestically, and I’ll still be able to report on it with my somewhat unique style, albeit at a new...

Just because we’re losingDoesn’t mean we’re lostDoesn’t mean we’ll stopDoesn’t mean we would cross Just because we’re hurtingDoesn’t mean we’re hurtDoesn’t mean we didn’t getWhat we deservedNo better and no worse We just got lostEvery...

Stadium Court in Klagenfurt at 9:00 a.m. on a Thursday or 3:00 p.m. on a Saturday - always a packed house. Two annual beach volleyball tournaments on this planet mean more than all the rest. In fact, they are beach volleyball. What’s odd is they happen to take place halfway around the globe from...

Lisa Rutledge will look to set new partner Ashley Ivy in Hermosa Beach. Let me be clear: this isn’t your grandmother’s Hot Stove. Instead, it’s more like your niece’s. A video so viral, it cannot even be housed here at avp.com. One take, my kitchen, Flip Cam in my cupboard with a jar of Jif peanut...

Even as the sun fades over San Diego, the game never stops on Cohasset Beach Court. As defined by my good friends at Dictionary.com, a “community” is a group of people having common interests or living in one locality, and “religion” is a belief in and worship of a God or other superhuman agency. Therefore,...

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...

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...