The side out era

Mar 19

Many of us hope that Donald Sun will be the savior to all our past AVP problems. After going bankrupt once again, the AVP was bought out buy mulit-millionaire Donald Sun in attempt to make a profitable professional league.   He was made some significant changes to the website, and I really believe that the […]

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Feb 26

In order for a sport to try to build a fan base there must be some kind of integrity to the game. Beach Volleyball seems to come out with multiple new rules every other year or so. The AVP tends to follow in the FIVB’s footsteps in most cases, and the thought is to make […]

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Feb 25

Imagine if the SuperBowl were played on a Tuesday morning at 9 AM this year. This kind of crisis on a much smaller scale is where the livelihood of beach volleyball finds itself.   Over the past several decades beach volleyball has revolved all of its popularity around one single event in the year: the […]

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Jan 31

The 1984 Charlie Saikley 6 Man Volleyball tournament featured the entire men’s Volleyball Olympic Gold Medal team. A volleyball tournament with no entrance fee, no prize money, no trophy, played host to the best volleyball team in the entire world. In 2011 this tournament played host to 90 men’s teams, 65 women’s teams, and over […]

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