March 3 The Thin Beast And The Crabb Good morning, beach volleyball fans, This will be the final newsletter I write from our home in Tallahassee for quite some time. Florida State was home last weekend, going 4-0 with some notable wins over Georgia State and a legitimately plucky Bakersfield team -- the Roadrunners have beaten Pepperdine and Georgia State already this year -- and we're now 9-0, with the most difficult portion of our schedule upcoming. The NCAA Beach season is about to kick...

February 24 Pre-March Madness Madness Good morning, beach volleyball fans, I will continue my trend of beginning this newsletter with where I'm writing it: A bus on the way back from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where we -- we being Florida State -- opened our season at the Beach Burg Invitational. We finished the weekend a clean 5-0, including a fun 3-2 win against LSU. That match, as could be expected of the eighth-ranked team in the nation in LSU, and the sixth in FSU, was a coin flip, and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyDfj7jlvGU This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features John [...]

February 17 More Pod Babies Good morning, beach volleyball fans, An admission, for transparency's sake: I'm writing this on a Friday afternoon, in the labor and delivery ward of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Delaney is napping, and our kid is in no particular rush to make his/her entrance. By the time this comes out, we'll know the gender and name and all of that, but I'm doing my part to get ahead of as much work as I can -- automation is a beautiful thing -- because soon we'll be in...