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The Paper Courts podcast adds Tri Bourne and a new name: The SANDCAST

I can see the play unfold as if it were yesterday: Tri Bourne jump-serving John Mayer down the line, Mayer passing, Ryan Doherty bump-setting it a tad outside, Bourne making him pay for it. Bourne...

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Superman hasn’t hung up his cape

Perhaps the only thing stranger than the setting in which Sean Rosenthal chose to conduct a deep introspection on his life as a professional beach volleyball player was the day, a Tuesday. It was June...

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Breaking down the new partnerships for the AVP 2018 season

Prom season has apparently started early in the beach volleyball world. And by prom season, I mean, of course, choosing-your-partner-for-the-next-year season, which in this case is AVP 2018. It seems a little early, to me,...

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AVP All-Pro Awards: Dalhausser, Ross still the best in the States

One of the admittedly many glaring holes in beach volleyball is that there are no All-Pro or All-American Awards, as there are in most any mainstream sport. Sure, the AVP has some cute superlative awards...

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The making of Sean Rosenthal’s SportsCenter play

If there is a single play that will be remembered from the AVP’s 2017 season, it is undoubtedly Sean Rosenthal’s absurd, twisting, reverse direction, flailing dig in the Hermosa Beach Open finals that caromed off...

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Odd partnerships make it through NORCECA qualifier…for naught

Jeremy Casebeer was in Brazil. Or Japan. Not even John Mayer, Casebeer’s partner throughout the 2017 season, can be sure. Tri Bourne was still sidelined with an autoimmune disease. So Mayer called up his good...

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The AVP 2017 season was awesome, but how can it improve?

I’ve written my piece. Many of them, actually. You know how I feel about the AVP Tour in 2017. I thought Donald Sun and the crew did an incredible job. Every stop was packed. Every...

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Athletes have never, and will never, “stick to sports”

I was watching the best show on television last night, Scott VanPelt’s SportsCenter. It’s excellent because he is unlike every other talking head in that he doesn’t offer hot takes, and he doesn’t conjure up...

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You can close North Carroll’s doors, but certainly not the memories

It’s fitting that it rained on the morning I chose to walk around North Carroll High School. Of the five senses, I find that smell is the most underrated, and there are few scents that...

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I’m just the Beach Volleyball Writer Guy

“Oh, you’re the beach volleyball writer guy?” Everywhere I went, every beach I stepped foot on from May to August, that’s the introduction I received. I loved it. Yeah. I’m the Writer Guy. My older...

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