AVP Manhattan Beach Open: Phil Dalhausser, Nick Lucena playing on an entirely different level
There was Sean Rosenthal, digging off the chest, digging off his right arm, his left [...]
There was Sean Rosenthal, digging off the chest, digging off his right arm, his left [...]
Summer Ross went a little wild this week. She washed her car. She did her [...]
Trevor Crabb was, to be honest, bored. Bored of everybody being so nice. Bored of [...]
I had to appreciate the irony. Even after I had shared a very long, cathartic [...]
The first thing Kevin Cleary will always remember is the crowd. It didn’t begin as [...]
I’m doing it. After AVP San Francisco, I’m pouring myself a big, heaping, ice cold [...]
Contrary to other major sports, which get an All-Star break or a dunk contest or some form of intermission, beach volleyball heads into the midpoint at its busiest juncture, with two five-star FIVBs, two AVPs, an NVL and the World Series of Beach Volleyball all in the same month. That said, it’s time to take a look at some mid-season awards, and what players are in line to take home some hardware at the end of the season.
The AVP is making its fourth stop of the year, in Seattle, and it is rife with excellent storylines. Former partners playing in first-round matchups? Finally a good break for Rafu Rodriguez-Bertran? Olympians in the qualifier...again? Another loaded women's field?
He is The Thin Beast, a gold medalist, perhaps the greatest American blocker of all time, if not in the whole world. Listen to Phil Dalhausser's path to becoming one of the GOATs.
First-time winners? International powers? American veterans? AVP NYC had everything the beach volleyball populace could have asked for and then some.