Beach Bytes: Beranek, Benesh partner for 2020; nothing but good news for USC beach
Eric Beranek saw plenty of Andy Benesh when they were growing up across town from one another in Southern California. Benesh, on the other...
SANDCAST: Gettin’ jazzed about beach volleyball with Kelly Reeves
There is a moment before every practice that is so innocuous, so easy to forget that it’s not all that uncommon for teams to...
Beach Bytes: Theo Brunner, Tim Bomgren partner; Quiggle creates clothing line
One of the great many gifts this off-season, among Thanksgiving, time off, family, limited international travel, has been the recent reinvention of Theo Brunner’s...
SANDCAST: Mike Dodd wants to know who’s king of the beach volleyball jungle
Mike Dodd apologized.
He’d been getting all wound up, or as wound up as the man, labeled by anyone you ask as one of the...
AVP announces 2020 schedule, building on same eight stops as 2019
Each AVP event, year after year as it continues to build and build on its now-annual stops, becomes, in the always-immortal words of Ed...
Beach Bytes: Schalk-Budinger, Patterson-Field partner up for 2020 and beyond
Summer of 2024 is a long way away. There will be hundreds of tournaments until then. The landscape of beach volleyball will hardly resemble...
SANDCAST: Off season is free-agent season for beach volleyball
After every Olympic quad, the massive trickle begins. It starts at the top, when Olympic partnerships dissolve, and the dominos begin to fall.
The quad...
Olympic women’s beach update: Mostly a race for second USA spot
More than a year has gone by since this Olympic race, done via planes, trains, boats, cars, shuttles, buses, and all manner of travel,...
