The perfect Olympic beach volleyball storm of Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil
It is only days before Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes will begin their last push for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Six events remain on...
SANDCAST: Olympic beach volleyball madness, medal favorites, Bally’s buys AVP
The Olympic beach volleyball field was set -- until it wasn’t.
COVID continues to wreak its havoc on the sporting world, with both Taylor Crabb...
Taylor Crabb tests positive, to be replaced in beach volleyball by Tri Bourne
Multiple sources are reporting that beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb has tested positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo and is in quarantine.
Crabb was scheduled to...
USA women’s Slabe: “We got a little bit better and I think we’re ready...
You could certainly argue that of the six USA volleyball teams in the Tokyo Olympics -- women's indoor, men's indoor, and two beach pairs...
April Ross on Klineman, Akers, Tokyo Olympics, Rooney the dog, cancer drug Verzenio
Getting a spot in the Tokyo Olympics came down to the wire for the other three USA beach volleyball teams, but April Ross and...
Bittersweet Olympic assignment for beach volleyball referee Brig Beatie
For Brig Beatie, being chosen to officiate beach volleyball in the Tokyo Olympics is the pinnacle of his officiating career.
But the honor is bittersweet.
Beatie...
The Olympic learning curve of Alix Klineman
It seems fast, to an outsider, a normal human being observing the ascent of Alix Klineman.
And, to be sure, it is.
But there is a...
Garrett Muagututia: Family man, beloved teammate, now an Olympian
It began -- and how else could this unlikely story possibly begin? -- as a joke. Despite no longer being a member of the...
SANDCAST: Derek Olson, Morocco’s ‘Disney story’ into the Tokyo Olympics
It is a precarious move, to bring your phone on any hike in any National Park. Cellular impediments abound, be it water, precipitous drops,...
No Olympics for beach icon Jen Kessy, but a new life on Maine trout...
The trout know she's coming.Â
It's dinner time and the water begins to bubble as Jen Kessy tosses bunches of fish food into pool after...