SANDCAST: Tina Graudina, Latvian trailblazer, is here to inspire
Tina Graudina still gets goosebumps. She even rolled up her sleeves a bit, just to show us, as she recalled watching her countrymen, Martins...
SANDCAST: Beach volleyball is back, answering fan questions heading into 2021 season
Once more, we write: Beach volleyball is back again. Kinda. Sorta. We hope.
It will be tentative, as all things in 2021 are likely to...
SANDCAST: Andy Benesh, Billy Allen’s new partner, is turning a corner
Even now, at 25, Andy Benesh would be hesitant to trust himself with his own money. Two years earlier, he couldn’t fathom why anybody...
SANDCAST: Nina Matthies: Beach volleyball’s ultimate champion and ambassador
By Nina Matthies’ definition of it, she’s been working since she was 16 years old.
“I got paid and I had to do stuff,” she...
SANDCAST: Billy Allen, the self-deprecating, deadpanning AVP champion and author
Billy Allen began the conversation in the most Billy Allen way possible, with deadpanned self-deprecation. When asked about his new book, Dark Blood, released...
SANDCAST: Angie Akers, beach volleyball’s running, kickboxing Olympic coach
Angie Akers tried. She tried virtually every way possible to get out of this game.
Fate had a good chuckle at that one.
Retiring from professional...
SANDCAST: Nick Lucena isn’t ready for the life of retired dad just yet
Nick Lucena got a taste of the life of the retired dad. Riding around in golf carts. Picking the kids up from school. Barbecues....
SANDCAST: Three gold medals of wisdom with Misty May-Treanor
Misty May-Treanor is busying herself in the way most retired athletes turned mothers of three might: She’s redecorating, making the switch from Halloween to...
Three years of unbelievable growth, change in three years of SANDCAST
About four hours before Tri Bourne, Savvy Simo and I recorded our latest episode of SANDCAST: Beach volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter,...
SANDCAST: Julia Scoles, finding peace amid life’s biggest decisions
Julia Scoles can’t pinpoint exactly where the peace came from, nor does she really feel the need to know.
All she knew was that, in...