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Ana Patricia-Duda win Paris Elite16 gold beach volleyball “battle” over Nuss-Kloth

On Saturday evening, after a pair of semifinal demolitions at the Paris Elite16 kudos of Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa (21-16, 21-12 over...
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Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth cruise to Paris Elite16 finals on chocolate and pizza

It must be the chocolate. Or maybe it’s the pizza. Perhaps the black magic of coach Drew Hamilton back home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That’s what Kristen...
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Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes thrive in Paris Elite16 with new-look offense

Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth are claiming to have quite a bit of fun in France at the Paris Elite16 -- and, with a...
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Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth having all of the fun with two sweeps in Paris...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when it was something of a pleasant surprise if Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth were...

Q&A with beach volleyball book Burning Sand author R.J. Ruggiero

BURNING SAND is the debut novel from R.J. Ruggiero, a screenwriter and playwright living near Boston. It's rare to have a novel about beach volleyball,...
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Megan Kraft celebrates 21st in style with qualifier wins at the Paris Elite16

The Paris Elite16 has only been an event for two years. Already, it has established a peculiar penchant for celebrating birthdays in style. Last year,...
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Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reece: Good stewards of the high-performance community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BcQWN79zs MALIBU, CALIFORNIA -- Gabby Reece isn’t trying to fool anyone. All those workouts that she and her husband, big wave surfer Laird Hamilton, host...
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Paris Elite16 101: Alix Klineman to make her post-partum debut on Wednesday

The unofficial fall break, the six-week beach volleyball hiatus between the Hamburg Elite16 and this week’s Paris Elite16, comes to an end on Wednesday,...
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Jon Alvarez, Volleyball Life, and “volleyball people doing cool stuff for volleyball”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQueWRtmimA HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- Jon Alvarez’s professors at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business had to have been tired of it. Every...
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Trevor Crabb is always taking receipts, now he’s literally cashing in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9j31McStU HERMOSA BEACH, California -- Trevor Crabb doesn’t do guarantees anymore. Retired from that game after a not-very-well-thought-out, spur-of-the-moment, emotionally fueled guarantee to win the...
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