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Live updates, 1/20/10

// January 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

We’re coming at you today from the women’s national team practice in Anaheim, CA. The team is warming up and the coaches are s opig out the scene.

Live Updates, 1/11/10

// January 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Casey Patterson is LOUD and GOOD indoors in Puerto Rico with Kinda Good 6-Man teammate Nils Nielsen. BOOOoooOOoooOOooommmMM!!!!

Reid wants you to check out volleyball-videos.com for…well…uh…figure it out!

THE FREE RIDE
Did you know that Al Scates was the first men’s collegiate volleyball coach to 900 wins. In his 48th year has a record of 1,185-253. And we’ve got a new women’s indoor professional league! The Women’s National Volleyball Association is coming to the USA. Not much information on this developing league, but we’ll get it to ya! There have been 4 or 5 of these types of leagues in the past.

The AVP schedule is still under construction. Boston, Seattle, and Malibu are all rumored to be event sites, but unless AVP lands a title sponsor they are all uncertain. CEO Jason Hodell talked about the AVP and NCAA sand volleyball with CNNmoney.

VOLLEYBALL ACTION
NAIA school Cal-Baptist takes out THREE top-10 teams this week. #7 Long Beach State, #8 UCLA, and #4 Pepperdine all went down to Adiel Tiedjop, Levi Cabral and company. Read more about it!

Live Updates, 1/4/10, John Speraw Interview!

// January 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Whoops. Barney just spilled a full glass of water on this computer. Dan is cleaning it up. Reid had a volleyball match on Christmas and it’s -40 degrees in Siberia. Barnett got a driving wheel for his Playstation3. Dan got some ornaments. We’ve got UC Irvine men’s head coach John Speraw on the show today!

THE FREERIDE
The Kindle is the biggest holiday online gift of all time! You can even get Lloy Ball’s book! Barney LOVES Avatar, Reid can only see it in Russian, so…And how about a holiday-shopping “man-stroller”? We can play vb all day but when it comes to walking around for 2 hours in a mall…NO WAY. This brings to mind vb bench players STANDING during the match. This is ridiculous!! Baseball has the bull-pin where you can even GRILL lunch, watch the match on TV, make some calls, whatever. Basketball has the cushy chairs (if your young, you might be on the floor), Hockey sits, Football has the option to sit….In 2010, I want to lobby for a “bench in the box”

JOHN SPERAW, Interview
John explains if his title-winning 2009 men’s UC Irvine team was his best ever…He says it was his best DEFENSIVE team. They had 6′9″ setter Ryan Ammerman blocking as good as anyone in the country. He recruits talent with character and now has great support from the school because they see it as a great opportunity for the school to get its name out in the community. He can now afford more quality coaches and a director of operations in addition to an increase in scholarships. He thinks the men’s teams this year are very deep. 14/20 of last year’s all-americans are returning. USC, Stanford, BYU, UCLA, LB State are all great teams with very little turnover. He’s actually not sure if his team should be ranked preseason #2. He would rank them at #8. In October UC Irvine hosted the World VB Challenge that pitted their men’s team against some of the best professional teams in the world. It was a great exhibition and has plans to be an annual event. John thinks that men’s vb can give a lot more schools exposure like UC Irvine has been doing. The NCAA Men’s “tournament” is still at 4 total teams and it’s going to take budgeting on the NCAA level to expand it to 8 teams.

Reid’s and Lloy Ball’s teams faced off this week and in a 5th set Lloy went off and beat Reid He says it was his most devastating loss he’s ever had (woah). He had the opportunity to win the Russian Cup and didn’t get it done. He’s lost matches that cost him $50,000 and still…