Beach Volleyball Match and Events
Beach volleyball stars will take to the sand in Mason (The Pulse-Journal) - MASON ? This weekend's AVP Crocs Cup Shootout will be the return home for a pair of gold medal beach volleyball teams.
Americans win beach volleyball gold (The Beatrice Daily Sun) - The Associated Press BEIJING - Phil Dalhausser blocked out the score, the sun and the Brazilian beat that shook the Olympic beach volleyball gold medal game.
Olympics: Brazil defeats U.S. 3-1 for volleyball gold (Arizona Daily Sun) - BEIJING (AP) -- Brazil won its first gold medal in women's volleyball on Saturday, beating the U.S. 3-1 and ending an emotional run by an American team struck by tragedy hours after the opening ceremony.
There is life after the Olympics (The Lompoc Record) - Aha! Sporting life HAS gone on after the Olympics.
Team USA did right by US in these Olympics (The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung) - The Olympics come to an end tonight, no doubt complete with all the magnificent fireworks and pageantry that rung in the games a few weeks ago.
Mother of all beach tourneys returns (The Aspen Times) - ASPEN - Rest easy, beach volleyball fans: The Olympics may be over, but there's still plenty of great beach volleyball to be seen in high definition this weekend.
High school contests get under way Thursday (Calaveras Enterprise) - The Olympics might be over, but the games are just getting started in Calaveras County. Thursday marks the first day high schools can play official contests against each other in the fall high school sports of girls golf, girls volleyball, boys soccer and cross country.
A View from the Sidelines - The Olympics is over and not a moment too soon; now it's prep sports time! (Liberty County Times) - By Paul Overlie Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:09 PM CDT Well, that does it, the 2008 Olympics are over. That means another four years before we get this particular spectacle of sports again.
Russia wins bronze in men's volleyball (TSN) - Beijing, China (Sports Network) - Russia won a bronze medal in men's indoor volleyball Sunday at the Beijing Olympics with a straight-sets victory over Italy.
Ecker: Badminton but no baseball at Olympics? (The Gazette) - Ping-Pong will be an official sport at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but baseball will not.Badminton? Yes. Baseball? No.Beach volleyball? Yes. Baseball? No.Handball, field hockey, synchronized swimming, archery, fencing and sailing? Yes, yes and yes. Baseball? Still no.The members of the International Olympic Committee do not view baseball as an international sport, so they've dropped it ...