Now the Volleyball Nations League attention again turns to the women. The third round begins Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Calgary, Canada. The USA women play their next match Wednesday against Belgium in Calgary.
Id-Dar tal-Providenza is once again holding the Volleyball Marathon after an absence of two years due to the pandemic. The 12th edition is taking place at the home’s carpark in Siġġiewi between July 1 and 3.
The upside to having great foreign players on an NCAA team? It was obvious for Hawai’i when it had Rado Parapunov, the 2021 AVCA national player of the year, and last year for Long Beach State, when it was led by freshman Alex Nikolov, the 2022 AVCA national player of the year.
With players like Michieletto, Lavia, Anzani and Balaso available on the court, the Italian team remains a stronghold and power for volleyball in Europe. With the Volleyball Nations League 2022 coming up...
This started out as an inquiry from a French coach, Remi Pourrat, asking me to help him find a job. Not exactly what I do. But we talked and he pleaded his case. It wasn’t like he fell off a volleyball turnip truck.
The USA men were stunned by Iran in Bulgaria on Thursday, getting swept as they took their first loss in Volleyball Nations League. The Americans have Friday off after their 25-18, 29-27, 27-25 defeat that left them 5-1 in VNL play.
The initial diagnosis was a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament. Luckily, her doctor was wrong about that one. As it turned out, Toni Rodiguez had only torn her miniscus, had surgery, and hopes to be back on the pro beach circuit in August.
Welcome back, TJ DeFalco. The USA men improved to 5-0 in the Volleyball Nations League on Wednesday as they beat Serbia 26-24, 23-25, 25-23, 25-20 behind 23 kills by DeFalco. DeFalco, who didn’t play in the first round when the USA opened 4-0...
Perhaps you’re not aware of it, but volleyball is one of the most popular sports in the world. According to reports, volleyball is among the top 10 sports by the sheer number of fans and followers globally.
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The 2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships were, in that ironic sort of way that things can sometimes tend to go, both somewhat of a disaster and inarguably the greatest thing that ever happened to Norwegian beach volleyball.
If nothing else, the just-concluded FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rome showed us that the sport is about chemistry. And, in the case of the USA, a lack thereof. To wit, go back three years.