November 3 Rest Up While You Can Good morning, beach volleyball fans, Greetings from St. Petersburg, Florida, where I'm on top secret college business. After that? It's onto Adelaide, Australia, for the two-week volleyball bonanza that is the World Championships. Rest up while you can: The time difference between California, Texas, Florida -- wherever you're reading this, but those are our three biggest demos -- to Adelaide is no joke. But World Champs comes once every two years, so tell the...

October 27 Germany's Home... Africa Tournament Cinja Tillmann and Svenja Muller won their first event in more than a calendar year. Good morning, beach volleyball fans, Greetings from Tallahassee and not Cape Town, South Africa -- or any other travel spot in between -- where the penultimate event on the Beach Pro Tour calendar was held. Of all places for the German women to put on a show, a place nearly 14,000 kilometers from their training center in Hamburg is not the first I'd have pegged....