Steve Obradovich: The last true beach volleyball entertainer
Rolling with laughter. That’s likely what Steve Obradovich would be doing at the level of trash talk – what little there is, anyway – on today’s AVP Tour. Passive aggressive Instagram comments? Stared...
1 Aug 201849min
Rafu Rodriguez-Bertran: Winning weird in semi-retirement
Rafu Rodriguez-Bertran was not supposed to win an AVP this year. Heck, he wasn’t even sure if he’d play an AVP this year. This past winter, he had a son, Nico, his first child. His club in Temecula, V...
25 Jul 20181h 12min
Suckin' down Lobes and sharing sarcasm with Brian Cook
In December of 2017, the AVP made a landmark announcement: It would be partnering with Amazon Prime for the upcoming season, and several seasons after that. The partnership would include a much-improv...
18 Jul 201821min
Emily Day and Betsi Flint: Weekend warriors
It was a look that featured a strange blend of joy and exhaustion, one athletes know all too well. Emily Day and Betsi Flint had just wrapped up their first day at AVP San Francisco, playing the maxim...
11 Jul 201823min
Chase Budinger: Dunking over P Diddy to bouncing on the AVP
Oh, God. It was happening again. Chase Budinger had felt this before. He’d felt these nerves, that extra surge – no, surge might not do it justice, the extra deluge – of adrenaline. He knew what happe...
4 Jul 20181h 25min
Tri Bourne: I'm not back yet, but the warm up has begun
I’m not exactly back, BUT things are finally getting interesting for me! I’ve been touching the ball and hitting the gym for a few weeks now and mentally it feels amazing. Physically, it hurts so goo...
2 Jul 201839min
Nicolette Martin: Just keep playing
It’s just after 6 a.m. on June 23, and Nicolette Martin leans into her seat at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, a massive cup of coffee in hand, exhausted from both an early morning travel-day wake up and ...
27 Jun 20181h 10min
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan, the No. 1 team in the world with an even higher ceiling
The pause, so slight, so innocuous, but present nonetheless, said more than words could. And, to be fair, Melissa Humana-Paredes did put a nice verbal spin on her and Sarah Pavan’s quarterfinal loss a...
20 Jun 20181h 5min
