Is California Still The Best Place For Beach Volleyball Players to Live?
On this Quick Set of SANDCAST, Travis Mewhirter and Florida State standout Alexis Durish wonder [...]
Beach Volleyball Digest: Beach Pro Tour Player Awards are in! A new venture in Volleyball media; Mark Paaluhi, Man of the Year
January 6 Happy New Year, y'all Good morning, beach volleyball fans, And a happy New Year! Hope everyone is still hitting the gym and doing whatever it is they've resolved to do in 2025. I'm back on the 5 a.m. wake-up routine, hence the early email. We at SANDCAST have resolved to continue growing, as 2024 was our most explosive year yet: 52% of our listeners discovered us in 2024 alone, we eclipsed 1 million audio downloads, our YouTube had more views in a single year than the previous six...
Beach Volleyball Man of The Year: Mark Paaluhi
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Mark Paaluhi didn’t have to do any of it. Didn’t have to [...]
Women’s Beach Pro Tour Player Awards: Ana Patricia, Duda Dominate 2024
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Just how good are Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa? By many [...]
Men’s Beach Pro Tour Awards: David Ahman, Anders Mol in a Class of Their Own
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Maybe the torch has been passed. Maybe the six-year run of Anders [...]
Beach Volleyball Digest: Evan Cory and Tri Bourne’s new partnership; Mel and Brandie mic’d up; Best books of 2024
December 30 Best For Last Good evening, beach volleyball fans, I hope y'all had the best Christmas and are still enjoying some time with family and sleeping in before the New Year's Resolutions begin and the alarms are at 5 and you're working out like fiends and detoxing and all the rest. As a belated Christmas present, and by complete accident -- we call that serendipity -- we have evidently saved our best mic'd up of the year for last, with Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson. Even...
MIC’D UP! Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson At The Finals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvtUZ6v1js&lc=UgwRSsRhwPdse9dM7sx4AaABAg Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson won Canada's first Olympic medal this year, a silver [...]
The Best Books I read in 2024, and hope you read them too
I read a lot. If you're reading this blog, you likely know that about me. [...]
Lesson of 2024: “There Are No Solutions, Only Tradeoffs.”
HAMPSTEAD, Maryland -- “There are no solutions, only trade-offs.” I don’t know when I read [...]
Beach Volleyball Digest: Bello Brothers on the pod; Tri’s big partner switch; Penn State delivers
December 23 Partner Switching Season is Here Good morning, SANDCAST fans, And a merry early Christmas to all. We'll be dropping a podcast early this week, since our usual publish day, Wednesday, will be Christmas morning, and I'd rather not run anything on Christmas day. After all, there's the Ravens to watch! So, on Christmas Eve, you'll be getting an early Christmas present, which is an episode of SANDCAST, and the first major partner switch of the 2025 beach volleyball season: Tri Bourne...
