does anyone know what is going on with the avp. their web site avptour.com
doesn't do a very good job of informing fans of the upcoming plans for the tour.

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Just added this great photo of
Bill"AKA"BEEF<br>Boulianne giving a shout out to all the<br>HERE'S DABEEF
BoulianneFANCLUB Members from Belmar<br>Beach at the AVP Sunkist
Open 2001.Billy is a great guy and we had a good chat
about his 1995 victory at Belmar with "LEWEY" Brian
Lewis and of<br>course his 1999 FIVB Acapulco Mexico
Open Gold Medal finish with the
"IMAN","MrVegas","IanSake^"<br>my nephew Ian Clark. Bill is playing better
than<br>ever having more roofs than Bob Vila and his
usual<br>great "DEEEEFENCE" at the Belmar stop.Thanks for<br>the
conversation BEEFERS and congratulations on a<br>splendid
career with many great memories from the<br>"HERE'S
DABEEF FANCLUB MEMBERS" on YAHOOOOOOO!!!!<br><br>Unca
Nick

17th Jeff Bellandi, Hermosa Beach, Calf./Bill
Boullianne, Redondo Beach, Calif. (22) 1-2 72 $500
<br><br>Top Belmar Pro Beach Volleyball Money Leaders
<br><br>Player Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Money <br><br>7. Bill
Boullianne 9 1 0 0 1 $24,712

HAPPY SUMMER 2001 TO ALL THE MEMBERS"I AM AN IMAN
FAN<br> CLUB"!!!!<br><br> Welcome to the "I AM AN I-MAN
FAN" CLUB everyone!!<br> Yahoo! Ian's busy being a
Beverly Hills Hillbilly at the moment but he'll be
back<br> behind the nets as soon as he picks a
partner,maybe Granny or Ellie May are<br> available....lol!!!
.It doesn't matter who you play with on this
merry-go-round that<br> is the Pro Beach Volleyball tour as
we'll be seeing you in the winner's circle<br>
soon!!Follow IMAN & company on Ian's website at<br>
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June15-17 PLANTERS TRAIL MIX AVP <br>HUNTINGTON
Open Huntington Beach,CA<br><br>25th Bill Boullianne,
Redondo Beach, Calif./Leland Quinn, Los Angeles,Calif.
(18) <br>0-2 36 $300<br>Winner's Bracket,
First-round<br> Paul Baxter, Plymouth, Minn./Jason Ring, Hermosa
Beach, Calif. (15) def. Bill<br>Boullianne, Redondo
Beach, Calif./Leland Quinn, Los Angeles, Calif. (18),
21-15<br>and 21-15 (35);<br>Loser's Bracket, First-round
(losers eliminated, place 25th, split
$300)<br>Riley/Fisher (31, 12) def. Boullianne/Quinn (18), 21-14 and
21-19 (38).

BEACH BITS From Sunday, June 17, 2001<br>
Courtesy of Tim Simmons<br><br> · The Gold Medal match
was an upset, as fifth-seeded Scott
Ayakatubby/Eduardo<br> Bacil beat top seeded Canyon Ceman/Mike Whitmarsh
for the title, marking the<br> second such decision
between the two teams todayâ€|Sunday's action saw six<br>
upsets out of 14 matchesâ€|out of the 16 matches in
Saturday's first round<br> winner's bracket, seven were
upsets, where the lower-seeded team topped the<br> higher
seeded teamâ€|in the other 32 matches on Saturday, there
were a total of<br> nine more seed breakthroughs, all
happening in the loser's bracket.<br> · For the second
straight week, the men's AVP title was won by means of<br>
comebackâ€|last week in Hermosa Beach, top-seeded Dax
Holdren/Todd Rogers<br> completed an unbelievable victory
after being down 13-7 in game three,<br> finishing with
an 8-2 run to win 17-15 over third-seeded Dain
Blanton/Eric<br> Fonoimoanaâ€|the Huntington Beach title was
claimed by Ayakatubby/Bacil, who<br> after winning game
one, held a brief lead at 2-1 in the second
gameâ€|following<br> that point, Ceman/Whitmarsh led the rest of game
two and all of game three<br> until Ayakatubby/Bacil
took the lead at 16-15 before winning 17-15â€|<br>
Ceman/Whitmarsh had two match points denied.<br> ·
Ayakatubby/Bacil finished the weekend with a perfect 6-0 record,
but it was<br> by no means easyâ€|each of their last
four matches required a third game, and<br> those four
matches averaged 58 minutes in durationâ€|the longest
match of the<br> tournament though, belonged to No. 2
Nick Hannemann/Adam Jewell and No. 19 Mike<br>
Lambert/Colin Smith, who battled each other for 1 hour, 15
minutes before the<br> higher seeds escaped with a 24-22
win in game three to advance to the Olympic<br>
Crossing semifinals.<br> · Ceman/Whitmarsh advanced to
the Olympic Crossing semifinals in what could be<br>
billed as the Battle of the Witsâ€|their opponents were
brothers Andy and Larry<br> Wittâ€|Whitmarsh of course
qualified by means of his nickname<br>
"Whit"â€|Ceman/Whitmarsh advanced with a 22-20 and 21-16 victory.<br> ·
Mike Lambert/Colin Smith were seeded 19th entering the
tournament, and<br> claimed an impressive fourthâ€|on
Saturday, the duo was unstoppable, defeating<br> three
teams (seeded 14th, 30th and 22nd) in advancing to the
winner's bracket<br> semifinalsâ€|on Sunday, although
Lambert/Smith finished in fourth place, the<br> only match they
won was a forfeit against fourth-seeded Brent
Frohoiff/David<br> Swatikâ€|their three losses came to the
fifth-seeded and second-seeded (twice)<br> teams.<br> Tim
Simmons, BFishInc

Beef is playing with a new partner for this weekend's event in Hunt. Bch. He's
set to play with Leland Quinn! Leland is 6'9''. Good luck to Beef and Leland!

$75,000 SIDE OUT AVP HERMOSA BEACH OPEN - MEN'S
RANKINGS<br> MERVYN'S BEACH BASH - June10, 2001 at The Pier,
Hermosa Beach,<br> Calif.<br> Men's Main Draw Final
Rankings<br> Rank, Team (Main Draw Seed, Qualification
Tournament Seed) Record<br> Points Earnings<br> 1stDax
Holdren,SantaBarbara,Cali/Todd Rogers,Santa Barbara,Cali(1)5-0<br> 360
$16,750<br> 2ndD.Blanton,Laguna Bch,Cali/Eric
Fonoimoana,Hermosa Bch,Cali(3) 5-2<br> 324 $11,250<br> 3rdStein
Metzger,Honolulu,Hi./Kevin Wong, Pearl City,Hi. (6) 4-1 288<br> $8,200<br>
4thBrent Doble,StPaul,Minn./CapisBch,Cali/Matt
Lyles,LosGatos,Cali(8)<br> 4-3 252 $6,200<br> 5th Albert
Hannemann,Torrance,Cali/Sean Scott,Kailua,Hi.(12) 3-2 216<br> $4,700<br>
5thAaronBoss,SanDiego,Cali/IanClark,Boulder,Co/HermosaBch,Cali(10)3-2<br> 216
$4,700<br> 7thScott Akayatubby,Hermosa
Bch,Cali/LeeLeGrande,Honolulu,Hi.(9) 3-2<br> 180 $3,200<br> 7thCarl
Henkel,RedondoBeach,Cali/Sinjin Smith,PacificPalisades,Cali(5)<br> 3-2 180
$3,200<br> 9th Rob Heidger, Redondo Beach, Calif./Chip
McCaw,Tulsa,Okla.(20)2-2<br> 144 $2,200<br> 9th John Anselmo/David Smith,Santa
Monica,Calif.,M.Beach,Calif.(19) 3-2<br> 144 $2,200<br> 9th Canyon Ceman,
M.Beach,
Calif./Mike Whitmarsh,San Diego,Cali(2) 1-2<br> 144
$2,200<br> 9th Scott Lane, LasVegas,Nev./Chad Mowrey,Redondo
Beach,Cali(24,<br> 32)3-2 144 $2,200<br> 13thDaniel
Cardenas,LosAngeles,Calif./Pepe Delahoz,SanDiego,Cali(17) 1-2<br> 108 $1,000<br>
13thB.Boullianne,Redondo Bch,Calif./Colin Smith,HermBeach,Cali (11)
2-2<br> 108 $1,000<br> 13thN.Hannemann,HermBch,Cali/Adam
Jewell, SJCapistrano,Cali(4)1-2<br> 108 $1,000<br>
13thJake
Elliott,Columbia,S.C./MarkPaaluhi,Honolulu,Hi.(16)2-2 108<br> $1,000<br>
17thAndy Witt, Santa
Ynez,Calif./Larry Witt,Santa Ynez,Calif.(15) 1-2 108<br> $500<br>
17thDavid Swatik,Manhattan Beach,Calif./Brent Frohoff,M.
Beach,Calif.(7)<br> 0-2 72 $500<br> 17thCasey
Jennings,H.Beach,Calif./Sean<br> Rosenthal,RedoBeach,Cali(21,3)0-2 72 $500<br>
17thRicci Luyties, Boulder,Colo./Jim Nichols,Encinitas,
Calif. (13)0-2 72<br> $500<br> 17thScott
Davenport,Redondo Beach,Cali/Paul Baxter,Plymouth,Minn(14)<br> 0-2
72 $500<br> 17thEdie Stokes,RedBeach, Calif./Brad
Torsone, Hermosa<br> Beach,Cali(22,7)0-2 72 $500<br>
17thJasn Ring,Hermosa Beach,Cali/Mark Williams,Santa<br>
Monica,Cali(23,12)0-2 72 $500<br> 17thMark Kerins,H. Beach,
Calif./Chris Makos, Playa Del Rey,Calif. (18)<br> 0-2 72
$500<br><br> Men's Qualification Tournament Rankings<br>
$75,000 SIDE OUT AVP HERMOSA BEACH OPEN - MEN'S
RANKINGS<br> MERVYN'S BEACH BASH - June 9, 2001 at The Pier,
Hermosa Beach,<br> Calif.<br> Revised June 9, 2001, 7:52
PM<br> Rank, Team (Qualification Tournament Seed) Record
Points<br> QChad Mowrey, Redondo Beach, Calif./Scott Lane,
Las Vegas, Nev.(32)4-0<br> Main Draw<br> QJason
Ring,Hermosa Beach,Calif./Mark Williams,Santa<br>
Monica,Calif.(12)3-0Main <br> Draw<br> QCasey Jennings,Huntington
Beach,Calif./Sean<br> Rosenthal,RedondoBeach,Calif.(3)3-0MD<br> QEddie
Stokes,Redondo Beach,Calif./Brad Torsone,Hermosa
Beach,Calif.(7)<br> 3-0 MD<br> 25thKarl Owens, Santa Monica,
Claif./Doug Foust, Calgary, Alberta,<br> Fla.(24) 3-1 36<br>
25thSean Burke, Chicago, Ill./San Diego, Calif./Matt
Olson, San Diego,Calif.<br> (13) 2-1 36<br> 25thAdam
Roberts, Myrtle Beach, S. C./Chad Turner, Clearwater
Beach,<br> Fla.(11) 2-1 36<br> 25thBrian Soldano, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla./James Walls, Fort<br> Lauderdale,Fla.(18)
2-1 36<br> 29thAndrew Vazquez, Hermosa Beach,
Calif./Tom Black, Reseda, Calif.<br> (17)1-1 32<br> 29thJohn
Moran, Phoneix, Ariz./Anthony Medel, Santa Barbara,
Calif.<br> (25)2-1 32<br> 29thMike Lambert, Honolulu,
Hi./Wayne Seligson, Honolulu, Hi. (37) 2-1<br> 32<br>
29thJeff Nygaard, Madison, Wis./John Hyden, San Diego,
Calif. (36) 2-1 32<br> 29thMike Mattarocci,San
Diego,Calif./Evie Mathews, Calgary,<br> Alberta,Canada(14)1-1
32<br> 29thJeff Hall, St. Paul, Minn./Mike Desjardin,
Mission Beach, Calif. (27)2-1<br> 32<br> 29thMike Scales,
Newport Beach, Calif./Corin Bemus, San Clem

Winner's Bracket, First-Round<br>Bill Boullianne,
Redondo Beach, Calif./Colin Smith, Hermosa Beach,
Calif.(11) def. <br>Eddie Stokes, Redondo Beach, Calif./Brad
Torsone, Hermosa Beach,Calif. (22, 7), 18-21, <br>21-14,
15-11 (63);<br>Winner's Bracket, Second-Round<br>Stein
Metzger, Honolulu, Hi./Kevin Wong,Pearl
City,Hi.(6)def.Boullianne/C. Smith (11), <br>21-17, 23-21 (49);<br>Loser's
Bracket, First-Round <br>Boullianne/C. Smith (11) def.
Jennings/Rosenthal (21, 3), 21-16, 22-20 (42);<br>Loser's Bracket,
Second-Round <br>Anselmo/D. Smith (19) def. Boullianne/C.
Smith (11), 21-16, 21-13
(40);<br><br><br><br><br><br>13thBill Boullianne,Redondo Bch,Calif./Colin
Smith,HermBeach,Cali (11) 2-2 108 $1,000

Men's Competition<br><br>Seeding: (Courtesy of
Lynn Chu)<br><br>Seed Name Points Ranking Qualifying
Status<br><br>Canyon Ceman, Manhattan Beach, Calif./Mike Whitmarsh,
SanDiego, Calif.<br>Dax Holdren, San Diego, Calif./Todd
Rogers, Santa Barbara, Calif.<br>Karch Kiraly, San
Clemente, Calif./Brent Doble, St.
Paul,Minn./CapistranoBeach, Calif.<br>Dain Blanton, Laguna Beach, Calif./Eric
Fonoimoana, Hermosa Beach, Calif.<br>Stein Metzger, Honolulu,
Hi./Kevin Wong, Pearl City, Hi.<br>Nick Hannemann, Hermosa
Beach, Calif./Adam Jewell, San Juan
Capistrano,Calif.<br>Carl Henkel, Redondo Beach, Calif./Sinjin Smith,
Pacific Palisades,Calif.<br>David Swatik, Manhattan
Beach, Calif./Brent Frohoff, Manhattan Beach,
Calif.<br>Lee LeGrande, Honolulu, Hi./Scott Akayatubby, Hermosa
Beach,Colo.<br>Aaron Boss, San Diego, Calif./Ian Clark, Boulder,
Colo./Hermosa Beach, Calif.<br>Albert Hannemann, Torrance,
Calif./Sean Scott, Kailua, Hi.<br>Scott Davenport, Redondo
Beach, Calif./Paul Baxter, Plymouth,Minn.<br>Bill
Boullianne, Redondo Beach, Calif./Colin Smith, Hermosa
Beach,Calif.<br>Mark Kerins, Huntington Beach, Calif./Chris Makos,
Playa Del Rey,Calif.<br>Andy Witt, Santa Ynez,
Calif./Larry Witt, Santa Ynez, Colo.<br>Jim Nichols,
Encinitas, Calif./Ricci Luyties, Boulder, Colo.<br>Mark
Paaluhi, Honolulu, Hi./Jake Elliott, Columbia, S.
C.<br>Pepe Delahoz, San Diego, Calif./Daniel Cardenas, Los
Angeles, Calif.<br>David Smith, Santa Monica, Calif./John
Anselmo, Manhattan Beach,Calif.<br>Rob Heidger, Redondo
Beach, Calif./Chip McCaw, Tulsa, Okla.<br>Jerry Graham,
Hermosa Bach, Calif./Jeff Carlucci, Hermosa
Beach,Calif.<br>Peter Tourigny/Rafat Agi, Redondo Beach,
Calif.<br>Casey Jennings, Huntington Beach, Calif./Sean
Rosenthal<br>Colin Wellman, Pacific Palisades, Calif./Brian
McDonald<br>Ronald Kumgisky/Jeff Bellandi, Hermosa Beach,
Calif.<br>Matt Riley/Dan Fischer<br>Eddie Stokes, Redondo Beach,
Calif./Brad Torsone, Hermosa Beach,Calif.<br>David Fischer,
Santa Monica, Calif/Jack Quinn, Venice Beach, Calif.

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BVA Professional Men's/Women's Beach
Volleyball<br>2001 TELEVISION SCHEDULE<br><br>Clearwater Beach
Invitational finals being taped for television replay on
ESPN2(check <br>local listings your area)<br>TV Air
Dates<br>Clearwater event: July 4, 10:30 PM PT, ESPN2<br>Oceanside
Women:July 18 3:30 PM local, Fox Sports Net<br>Oceanside
Men:July 25 3:30 PM local, Fox Sports
Net<br><a href=http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvlistings/index
target=new>http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvlistings/index</a><br><a
href=http://www.foxsports.com/ target=new>http://www.foxsports.com/</a>

Breaking news!!!<br>Beach Volleyball America will
not be holding any more events. In the
future,<br>professional beach volleyball events will be conducted by the
AVP, under the new <br>ownership of Digital Media
Campus.For past BVA results, go to VolleyCentral.com

Volleyball circuit owner plans to unify sport
(USA Today) Breaking news!!!<br>By David Leon
Moore<br>LOS ANGELES : Agent Leonard Armato hopes his latest
involvement with the financially <br>struggling sport of pro
beach volleyball turns out as well as what's going on
recently with <br>his biggest client, Los Angeles Lakers
center Shaquille O'Neal.Armato will announce today
<br>that he has acquired the Association of Volleyball
Professionals and will unify competing <br>beach volleyball
circuits into one domestic tour the AVP, which will
feature both men's <br>and women's competition.Armato
founded the AVP in 1983 and led it to surprising heights
<br>$100,000 first-prize purses, live network TV, recognizable
stars such as Sinjin Smith<br>and Karch Kiraly before
being ousted by the players in a political flap in
1989.Gaining <br>Olympic status seemed to give the sport a
stamp of approval, and it was a big hit in Atlanta
<br>in 1996. But sponsorship and TV money dried up in
the late 1990s, and at the end of 1998, <br>the AVP
declared bankruptcy.It reorganized and limped along the
last 2 years with drastic <br>cuts in events and prize
money.Armato's plan: unify, rebuild burned bridges and market,
<br>market, market."In the past, the players owned the AVP,
and they sucked out every dollar <br>into prize
money, so there wasn't any real marketing effort,"
Armato says. "The importance <br>of their sponsors and
the importance of TV were just not recognized. The
thing just <br>crumbled because of a self-driven,
ego-motivated attitude. I've told the players that we have
<br>to sell this sport 24 hours a day to the fans, to
sponsors, to TV."Armato has all the top <br>U.S. players,
men and women, signed to 4-year agreements with three
exceptions. The <br>reigning Olympic gold medalists, Dain
Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana, have not signed up. <br>They
are concerned about protecting their sponsors and
about freedom to compete on the <br>FIVB international
tour."It's a tour-friendly deal, not a player-friendly
deal," Blanton says <br>of Armato's contracts. "To be
that handcuffed is very difficult."But Armato and
Blanton <br>both say they expect to reach an agreement.
On the women's side, Olympian Misty May, a
<br>former partner of Holly McPeak, Armato's girlfriend, has
not signed.The first event under <br>the reorganized
AVP is June 8-10 in Hermosa Beach,Calif., where both
men and women <br>will play. In all, the 2001
schedule will include eight events (five with men and
women, <br>three with men only). Total prize money is
nearly $1 million. All events will be shown
<br>tape-delayed on Fox Sports Net.Armato had tough negotiations
with veteran AVP players <br>such as Kiraly and Mike
Whitmarsh over adopting FIVB rules smaller court, different
ball, <br>rally scoring.In the end, though, the players
had no alternative."The other option was to <br>stop
playing," says Whitmarsh, 39, who, paired with Canyon
Ceman, will be one of the <br>favorites at Hermosa. "We
made some compromises. We also came to the realization
that <br>Leonard might be the one who can resurrect
our sport."

Sunday May 27, 2001 Results<br>Volleyhut BVA
Oceanside Invitational<br><br>Champions are Misty May /
Kerri Walsh and Dain Blanton / Eric
Fonoimoana<br><br><br>3rd Round (Final in the) Women's Winners
Bracket<br><br>Misty May / Kerri Walsh def. Karen Truessel / Denise
Koelliker 21-19, 21-19<br>(37 minutes)<br><br>3rd Round
Women's Losers Bracket<br><br>Jen Holdren / Liz Masakayan
def. Tammy Liley-Liebel / Lynda Johnson
Black<br>22-20, 21-15 (36 minutes)<br><br>4th Round (Final in
the) Women's Losers Bracket<br><br>Jen Holdren / Liz
Masakayan def. Karen Truessel / Denise Koelliker
15-21,<br>21-15, 15-12 (53 minutes)<br><br>Women's Championship
Final<br><br>Misty May / Kerri Walsh def. Jen Holdren / Liz
Masakayan 21-19, 21-19 (42<br>minutes)<br><br><br>3rd Round
(Final in the) Men's Winners Bracket<br><br>Dax Holdren
/ Todd Rogers def. Dain Blanton / Eric Fonoimoana
18-21, 21-16,<br>15-11 (64 minutes)<br><br>3rd Round
Men's Losers Bracket<br><br>Adam Roberts / Brian
Soldano def. John Hyden / Dan Landry 21-19, 21-19
(39<br>minutes)<br><br>4th Round (Final in the) Men's Losers
Bracket<br><br>Dain Blanton / Eric Fonoimoana def. Adam Roberts /
Brian Soldano 21-16,<br>21-15 (32 minutes)<br><br>Men's
Championship (double-elimination) Final<br><br>Dain Blanton /
Eric Fonoimoana def. Dax Holdren / Todd Rogers (First
Match)<br>21-19, 21-15 (This forced a second match in this
double-elimination final.<br>This second match was just one game to
21, instead of best of three) (Second<br>Match) 21-18
(40 minutes total)

Courtesy Of Lynn Chu: 5/26/01<br><br>Saturday May
26, 2001 Results<br>Volleyhut BVA Oceanside
Invitational<br><br>1st Round Women’s Winners Bracket<br><br>Misty May
(Costa Mesa, CA) / Kerri Walsh (Saratoga, CA) def.
Barbara Nyland (San <br>Diego, CA) / Sharman Mitchell
(San Diego, CA) 21-13, 21-15 (35 minutes)<br><br>Teri
Van Dyke (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Karen Helyer (San
Diego, CA) def. Tammy Pelski <br>(Fort Lauderdale, FL) /
Tammy Rau (Fort Lauderdale, FL) 22-20, 20-17 (44
minutes)<br><br>Karen Truessel (Switzerland) / Denise Koelliker
(Switzerland) def. Dana Atkinson <br>(Huntington Beach, CA) /
Katie Lindquist (Fountain Valley, CA) 21-14, 21-13 (31
<br>minutes)<br><br>Tammy Liley-Liebel (San Diego, CA) / Lynda Johnson
Black (San Diego, CA) def. Jennifer <br>Holdren (San
Diego, CA) / Liz Masakayan (San Diego, CA) 21-18,
24-22<br><br>2nd Round Women’s Winners Bracket<br><br>Misty May /
Kerri Walsh def. Teri Van Dyke / Karen Helyer 21-12,
21-9 (31 minutes)<br><br>Karen Truessel / Denise
Koelliker def. Tammy Liley-Liebel / Lynda Johnson Black
21-16, <br>20-22, 15-? (54 minutes)<br><br>1st Round
Women’s Losers Bracket<br><br>Jennifer Holdren / Liz
Masakayan def. Dana Atkinson / Katie Lindquist 21-12, 21-14
(23 <br>minutes)<br><br>Tammy Pelski / Tammy Rau def.
Barbara Nyland / Sharman Mitchell 21-19, 21-19 (42
<br>minutes)<br><br>2nd Round Women’s Losers Bracket<br><br>Jennifer
Holdren / Liz Masakayan def. Teri Van Dyke / Karen Helyer
21-14, 21-11 (29 <br>minutes)<br><br>Tammy Liley-Liebel
/ Lynda Johnson Black def. Tammy Pelski / Tammy Rau
19-21, <br>21-17, 15-8 (41 minutes)<br><br><br>1st Round
Men’s Winners Bracket<br><br>Dain Blanton (Laguna
Beach, CA) / Eric Fonoimoana (Hermosa Beach, CA) def.
John <br>Hyden (San Diego, CA) / Dan Landry (San
Diego, CA) 21-18, 21-18<br><br>Adam Roberts (Myrtle
Beach, SC) / Brian Soldano (Fort Lauderdale, FL) def.
Andrew <br>Pelski (Fort Lauderdale, FL) / Jim Walls
(Pompano Beach, FL) 18-21, 21-11, 15-9 (45
<br>minutes)<br><br>Matt Heath (Delray Beach, FL) / Eric Wurts (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) def. Gaston Macau <br>(Miami, FL) / Chad
Turner (Clearwater, FL) 21-15, 21-16 (40
minutes)<br><br>Dax Holdren (San Diego, CA) / Todd Rogers (Santa
Barbara, CA) def. Brian Rutland (Fort <br>Lauderdale, FL)
/ Jim Van Zwieten (Pompano Beach, FL) 21-17, 21-17
(36 minutes)<br><br>2nd Round Men’s Winners
Bracket<br><br>Dain Blanton / Eric Fonoimoana def. Adam Roberts /
Brian Soldano 19-21, 21-16, 15-10 <br>(55
minutes)<br><br>Dax Holdren / Todd Rogers def. Matt Heath / Eric
Wurts 21-17, 21-17 (37 minutes)<br><br>1st Round Men’s
Losers Bracket<br><br>Gaston Macau / Chad Turner def.
Brian Rutland / Jim Van Zwieten 21-17, 21-17 (37
<br>minutes)<br><br>John Hyden / Dan Landry def. Andrew Pelski / Jim Walls
21-19, 26-24 (36 minutes)<br><br>2nd Round Men’s Losers
Bracket<br><br>Adam Roberts / Brian Soldano def. Gaston Macau / Chad
Turner 19-21, 26-24, 15-13 (56 <br>minutes)<br><br>John
Hyden / Dan Landry def. Matt Heath / Eric Wurts 21-16,
21-16 (34 minutes) (Wurts <br>played this game with a
torn bicep muscle suffered in an earlier
game.)<br><br><br>Play resumes tomorrow (Sunday) at 9:00 AM PDT

Courtesy Of Dr.Ono's Beach Volleyball
Database<br> <a href=http://www.bvbinfo.com/
target=new>http://www.bvbinfo.com/</a><br><br> 5/22/2001<br>
Karch Kiraly Signs AVP Player Agreement <br> We are
pleased to announce that Karch Kiraly has signed his<br>
AVP Player Agreement. Karch was instrumental in
achieving<br> many of the concessions made to the players as
contained<br> in the Addendum (including the increase of over
$1 million in<br> guaranteed prize money) and was
extremely helpful in<br> making our acquisition of the AVP
a reality. While Karch did<br> not officially meet
the Friday deadline, Karch publicly<br> indicated his
support of our acquisition last Thursday and<br>
reiterated his intention to sign on Friday. The only reason
that<br> he did not sign his contract by the deadline was
because his<br> agents were unavailable to review the
Agreement and<br> Addendum in time. The agents reviewed the
contract this<br> weekend and Karch has signed the exact
same contract (and<br> Addendum) as each the other
players. There are no side<br> deals with Karch or any
other player.<br> Karch has raised a few points that we
are going to address<br> over the next several days.
If we agree to any of his<br> suggested changes,
they will be incorporated into a second<br> Addendum
that will be incorporated into each of the AVP<br>
Player Agreements.<br> ~Andy Reif, Chief Operating
Officer <br><br> "Thanks KK!! Like they say in the
Playoffs, once again a leader has<br> stepped up to help
save the day<br> for beach volleyball fans
everywhere.Kudos to KK."<br> Unca Nick

Event: BVA Oceanside Invitational<br>Date:May
26-27, 2001<br>Qualifier: None (Invite
only)<br>Seedings: TBD <br>Main Draw Saturday 9AM to 5PM<br>Sunday
9AM start<br>Finals scheduled for approximately 2:30
PM on Sunday<br>Where: Southside of the
Pier<br>Directions From I-5 take the Mission Avenue exit WEST. This
will deadend into Pacific. <br>The pier is in front of
you.<br><br>Men's Competition:<br>Dain Blanton (Laguna Beach, CA) /
Eric Fonoimoana (Hermosa Beach, CA) <br>Dax Holdren
(San Diego, CA) / Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, CA)
<br>Gaston Macau (Miami, FL) / Chad Turner (Clearwater, FL)
<br>Andrew Pelski (Fort Lauderdale, FL) / Jim Walls (Pompano
Beach, FL) <br>Adam Roberts (Myrtle Beach, SC) / Brian
Soldano (Fort Lauderdale, FL) <br>Brian Rutland (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) / Jim Van Zwieten (Pompano Beach, FL)
<br>Matt Heath (Delray Beach, FL) / Eric Wurts (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) <br>John Hyden (San Diego, CA) / Dan Landry
(San Diego, CA) <br>Format: 8-team double elimination
tournament. Matches will be played<br>best 2 out of 3 games
using the FIVB Rally Point Scoring (RPS)
system;<br>Games 1 and 2 will be played to 21 points, game 3 will
be played to 15<br>points. Each game must be won by
a 2-point margin. <br><br>Prize Money Distribution:
<br>1st (Gold Medal) $5,000 <br>2nd (Silver Medal) $3,500
<br>3rd (Bronze Medal) $3,000 <br>4th $2,750 <br>5th (2
teams) $2,250 <br>7th (2 teams) $2,000 <br><br>Women's
Teams:<br>Misty May (Costa Mesa, CA) / Kerri Walsh (Saratoga, CA)
<br>Jennifer Holdren (San Diego, CA) / Liz Masakayan (San
Diego, CA) <br>Karen Truessel (Switzerland) / Denise
Koelliker (Switzerland) <br>Tammy Pelski (Fort Lauderdale,
FL) / Tammy Rau (Fort Lauderdale, FL) <br>Teri Van
Dyke (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Karen Helyer (San Diego,
CA) <br>Dana Atkinson (Huntington Beach, CA) / Katie
Lindquist (FountainValley, CA) <br>Tammy Liley-Liebel (San
Diego, CA) / Lynda Johnson Black (San Diego, CA)
<br>Barbara Nyland (San Diego, CA) / Sharman Mitchell (San
Diego, CA) <br>Format: 8-team double elimination
tournament. Matches will be played<br>best 2 out of 3 games
using the FIVB Rally Point Scoring (RPS)
system;<br>Games 1 and 2 will be played to 21 points, game 3 will
be played to 15<br>points. Each game must be won by
a 2-point margin. <br><br>Prize Money Distribution:
<br>1st (Gold Medal) $5,000 <br>2nd (Silver Medal) $3,500
<br>3rd (Bronze Medal) $3,000 <br>4th $2,750 <br>5th (2
teams) $2,250 <br>7th (2 teams) $2,000 <br><br>Hotel
Days Inn Oceanside<br>1501 Carmelo Drive<br>Oceanside,
CA 92054<br>Phone: 760-722-7661<br><br><br>VIP
Parking From Mission Avenue. Go Right on Pacific and go
one block to Pier View <br>and go right. The lot is
on the left. You must have a parking pass to
enter.<br>Public Parking There is metered parking all around the
pier and a few pay lots.<br>Format: Invitational
<br>Players Scheduled : <br><br>Tickets FREE<br>Site Delivery
Info Beach Volleyball America Event<br>301 North The
Strand<br>Oceanside, CA 92054<br><br>Courtesy of AVP Pro Paul Baxter:
5/24/01 <br>The tourney in Oceanside this weekend has
been reduced to an exhibition. There will be 4-6
<br>teams. E.Fonoi-D.Blanton will be the #1 seed, with the
rest of the draw being filled in with <br>Florida
teams.Any teams that are contracted with the new AVP were
not invited to play<br>in the event. <br>Courtesy Of
Lynn Chu: 5/24/01<br>As for Oceanside, I'll be
attending the event and covering it for About.com's web
site. So, <br>you'll have to check for results there.
I'll have more info once I get to the event
and<br>hopefully they'll have a computer I post info to. If not,
then you'll have to watch for it on <br>the BVA site
or About.com site.

The AVP is once again alive: 5/15/01<br><br> The
AVP/BVA reorganizational meeting was held last night. I
was in<br> route to Minnesota at <br> the time, but
called to find out the latest scoop. It looks like there
will be<br> a 8 event <br> schedule for the men and a
5 event schedule for the women. The first<br> event
will be the <br> Beach Bash in Hermosa Beach on June
8-10. Prize money for the year<br> will be $750,000.
<br> Other tour stops will include Belmar!, Chicago,
Virginia Beach. I will<br> be having all the <br>
information faxed to me sometime today hopefully, so I can
post a<br> further update then. <br> International
rules will still be in effect.<br><br> Chicago date
axed! 5/17/01:<br><br> See the "updated" avptour.com as
another date has been cancelled and<br> the first
scheduled <br> event for the AVP will be in Hermosa Beach
06/08 - 06/10,stay tuned as<br> nothing seems <br>
certain anymore.

AVP TOUR Y2K1-YEAR 2001<br> SCHEDULE<br> 2001
Schedule Announcement <br> schedule for the AVP Tour in
the year 2001 ***revised 5/17/01<br> Date Event
Site<br> May 11-13 PANAMA CITY AVP TOURNAMENT Panama
City,FL<br> (CANCELLED)<br> May 18 -20 CLEARWATER SUNKIST AVP
Clearwater, FL<br> (CANCELLED)<br> June 01 -03 PLANTERS TRAIL
MIX AVP CHICAGO Chicago, IL<br> (CANCELLED)<br> June
08 -10 MERVYN’S BEACH BASH 2000AVP HERMOSA<br>
Hermosa Beach, CA<br> June 15 -17 PLANTERS TRAIL MIX AVP
HUNTINGTON Huntington<br> Beach, CA<br> July 13 - 15 SUNKIST
AVP MUSKEGON OPEN Muskegon , MI<br> July 20 - 22
SUNKIST AVP BELMAR OPEN Belmar, NJ<br> July 27 - 29 PAUL
MITCHELL AVP VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia<br> Beach, VA<br> Aug
10-12 ATLANTIC CITY AVP TOURNAMENT Atlantic City,NJ<br>
(CANCELLED)<br> Aug17 - 19 AVP KARCH KIRALY CLASSIC Santa
Barbara, CA<br> Aug 24 - 26 SUNKIST AVP MANHATTAN BEACH
OPEN Manhattan<br> Beach, CA<br> Sept 07- 09 PAUL
MITCHELL AVP King & Queen of the Beach Las<br> Vegas, NV

Orange County Register vb article Courtesy Lynn
Chu Breaking news!!!<br>Beach break: Armato seeking
volleyball unification<br>The agent is trying to combine the
AVP and BVA, putting both on hold.<br>May 3,
2001<br>By SHAWN PRICE<br>The Orange County
Register<br><br>Dark clouds once again are hovering over professional
volleyball's beach party. For better or <br>worse, the sport
is going through its latest evolution while a
familiar face tries to unify the <br>sport into a more
Olympic-ready colossus.Super agent and former beach game player
<br>Leonard Armato has purchased the Beach Volleyball of
America tour from owner Charlie <br>Jackson. Now Armato,
a co-founder of the Association of Volleyball
Professionals in 1983, <br>is trying to buy that league by
Monday and unite it again as one tour if he can
gather<br>enough interested investors.The players' future is
uncertain and their patience is growing <br>thin. The
entire AVP schedule has been retracked and a BVA event
scheduled for this<br>weekend in Miami was canceled."I
don't think anybody really knows what's going on," said
<br>Olympic and BVA star Misty May of Costa Mesa. "I was in
China for a tournament when I <br>got the E-mail and I
sent it to my parents."In it, both men's and women's
players were <br>notified that Armato had filed a letter
of intent to the AVP majority owner Spencer Trask
<br>Ventures in New York to buy the AVP by April 30. That
decision has been extended one <br>week as both sides try
to agree on the deal.And while the unifying of the
two competing <br>tours is seen almost universally as
a good idea, some AVP athletes are less than
thrilled with <br>the idea of playing with international
rules, as Armato is expected to use."If going
<br>international is what they have to do, then it's what they have
to do," said Brent Doble of <br>Capistrano Beach.

(For some great photos taken by Carl Wagenfohr at the BVA Clearwater event,
check out his web page at: <a href=http://www.wagenfohr.com
target=new>http://www.wagenfohr.com</a> .)

$150,000 VOLLEYHUT CLEARWATER BEACH INVITATIONAL
-<br> RANKINGS<br> April 20-22, 2001 at Pier 60 South,
Clearwater Beach, Fla.<br><br> Men's Main Draw Final
Results<br><br> Rank Team (Main Draw Seed, Qualification
Tournament Seed) Record<br> Points Earnings<br> 1st Dax
Holdren, San Diego, Calif./Todd Rogers, Santa Barbara,
Calif.<br> (3) 3-0 56<br> $15,000<br> 2nd Stein Metzger,
Honolulu, Hi./Kevin Wong, Pearl City, Hi. (4) 3-1<br>
48<br> $9,500<br> 3rd Dain Blanton, Laguna Beach,
Calif./Eric Fonoimoana, Herm Beach,<br> Calif. (1) 3-0 56
<br> $7,500<br> 4th Rob Heidger, Redondo Beach,
Calif./Chip McCaw, Tulsa, Okla. (5)<br> 2-1 48<br> $5,250<br>
5th Carl Henkel, Redondo Beach, Calif./Sinjin Smith,
Pacific Palisades,<br> Calif.(2) 2-1 48 <br> $4,125<br>
5th Bill Boullianne, Redondo Beach, Calif./Colin
Smith, Hermosa<br> Beach, Calif. (6) 3-1 48 <br>
$4,125<br> 7th Albert Hannemann, Torrance, Calif./Sean
Scott, Kailua, Hi. (8) 2-2<br> 40<br> $3,750<br> 7th
Gaston Macau, Miami, Fla./Chad Turner, Clearwater Beach,
Fla.<br> (10) 2-240<br> $3,750<br> 9th Adam Roberts,
Myrtle Beach, S. C./Brian Soldano, Fort Lauderdale,<br>
Fla.(7) 1-2 32 <br> $3,000<br> 9th Andrew Pelski, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla./Jim Walls, Fort Lauderdale,<br> Fla.(14,
4)1-2 32 <br> $3,000<br> 9th Aaron Boss, San Diego,
Calif./Colin Wellman, Pacific Palisades,<br> Calif.(12) 1-2 32
<br> $3,000<br> 9th Pete Divenere, Pawleys Island,
S.C./James Fellows, Naples, Fla.<br> (9)1-2 32<br>
$3,000<br> 13th Dan Landry, San Diego, Calif./Jeff Nygaard,
Madison, Wis. (15)<br> 0-2 24<br> $2,500<br> 13th Jim
VanZwieten, Pompano Beach, Fla./Bill Maik, D, Beach,<br>
Fla.(11, 1)0-2 24 <br> $2,500<br> 13th Eric Wurts, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla./Matt Heath, Delray Beach, Fla.<br> (13,2)
0-2 24 <br> $2,500<br> 13th Coley Kyman, Aliso Viejo,
Calif./Mark Presho, San Diego, Calif.<br> (16,14) 0-2 24 <br>
$2,500 <br><br>MORE
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Top-seeded Fontana & Youngs net women's
Clearwater Beach volleyball<br> gold medal; <br> Holdren &
Rogers capture second Florida title in VolleyHut
Clearwater<br> Beach <br> Invitational men's final.<br><br>
CLEARWATER BEACH, FLA. - Top-seeded Barbra Fontana and
Elaine<br> Youngs overcame <br> a first game loss in the
best of three women's Gold Medal match to<br> capture
the $15,000 <br> first-place prize by defeating
third-seeded Holly McPeak and Rachel<br> Wacholder in the <br>
$150,000 Volleyhut Clearwater Beach Invitational here
Sunday (April<br> 22).<br> In the men's Gold Medal
match, third-seeded Dax Holdren and Todd<br> Rogers
captured their <br> second pro beach event in Florida in
the past year by defeating<br> fourth-seeded Stein
Metzger <br> and Kevin Wong 21-15 and 21-16 in 35 minutes
to share the $15,000<br> first-place prize.<br>
After losing 21-18 in Sunday's first Gold Medal game,
Fontana and<br> Youngs rallied to win <br> the next two
games 21-10 and 15-7 to conclude the 55-minute
title<br> match against McPeak <br> and Wacholder. Fontana
and Youngs concluded the weekend with a 5-0<br> match
mark to net <br> their first pro beach volleyball
title in only their second event together.<br> Fontana
(Manhattan <br> Beach, Calif.), who captured her 17th pro
beach title, and Youngs<br> (Encinitas, Calif.) <br>
advance to the finals with a 21-18 and 2-20 win in 40
minutes over<br> 14th-seeded Linda<br> Hanley (Pacific
Palisades, Calif.) and Sarah Straton (Hermosa Beach,<br>
Calif. Sunday's title <br> was the 11th for Youngs.
McPeak (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and<br> Wacholder
(Hermosa <br> Beach,Calif.), who were playing in their
first pro beach event together,<br> shared $9,500 for
the <br> Volleyhut Clearwater Beach Silver Medal.
McPeak, who was playing in<br> her 81st title match <br>
with 55 Gold Medals, and Wacholder advanced to the
finals with a 22-20<br> and 21-16 win in <br> 40 minutes
over fourth-seeded Nancy Mason (Belleville, Ill) and
Leanne<br> Schuster (Mesa, <br> Ariz.) on the Pier 60 South
center court. In the Bronze Medal match,<br> Mason and
Schuster <br> scored a 21-17 and 21-17 win in 39 minutes
over Hanley and Straton.<br> Mason and Schuster <br>
shared $7,500 for the third-place finish. Hanley and
Straton, beach<br> Olympians, split $$5,250 <br> for their
fourth-place finish in their first pro beach event together.
Hanley<br> finished fourth<br> with Fontana for the United
States in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games<br> while
Straton <br> competed in the Sydney 2000 Games for
Australia.<br> Sunday's action concluded with the men's medal
matches. Holdren(San<br> Diego, Calif.) and <br> Rogers
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) captured their seventh pro beach
Gold<br> Medal and fifth in the <br> past year after
starting the streak with a win last April in Deerfield
Beach,<br> Fla.<br> Metzger (Honolulu, Hi.) and Wong (Pearl
City, Hi.) scored Sunday's<br> biggest upset by <br>
eliminating Sydney 2000 Olympic Gold Medallists and
top-seeded Dain<br> Blanton (Laguna <br> Beach, Calif.) and
Eric Fonoimoana (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) 19-21,<br>
21-15 and 19-17 in a<br> 65-minute semi-final match.
Holdren and Rogers advanced to the men's<br> title match
with a <br> 21-18 and 23-21 semi-final win in 45
minutes over fifth-seeded Rob<br> Heidger (Redondo <br>
Beach, Calif.) and Chip McCaw (Tulsa, Okla.).In the
men's Bronze<br> Medal match, Blanton <br> and
Fonoimoana notched a 21-16 and 21-18 win in 40 minutes
over<br> Heidger and McCaw.<br> It was the first-time in
five matches this weekend that the Sydney Gold<br>
Medallists did not <br> have to play a match with three
games. Blanton and Fonoimoana entered<br> the weekend as
a<br> defending Clearwater Beach champions after
winning the 1999 event.The<br> opening domestic <br>
event on the 2001 BVA Pro Beach Volleyball Tour,
Volleyhut<br> Clearwater Beach <br> Invitational was taped for
television replay on ESPN2 this summer.<br><br> MORE RESULTS
here<br> <a href=http://www.

Hey I just got word that the AVP is slowly
confirming their new schedule... here's what I've been told
- the ones with stars have been confirmed.<br><br>
Panama City, FL May 11-13<br> Clearwater, FL May
18-20<br> *Chicago, IL June 1-3<br> *Huntington Beach, CA
June 15-17<br> *Hermosa Beach, CA June 22-24<br>
*Santa Barbara, CA July 6-8<br> *Muskegon, MI July
13-15<br> *Belmar, NJ July 20-2<br> *Virginia Beach, VA
July 27-29<br> Atlantic City, NJ August 10-12<br>
*Manhattan Beach, CA August 24-26<br> *Las Vegas, NV
September 7-9<br><br> Hopefully they'll be adding Santa
Cruz in April real soon...<br><br> Gidget

2001AVP TOUR IN
DOUBT<br>????????????????????????????<br>Hold on AVP FANS ,we have reports of a
schedule
surfacing see Y2K1 AVP schedule on <br>this page
below!!!<br><br>Gold-Medal Winners Leaving the AVP Tour
Acrimoniously<br><br><a
href=http://www.latimes.com/sports/othersp/20010112/t000003312.html
target=new>http://www.latimes.com/sports/othersp/20010112/t000003312.html</a><br\
><br>AVP TOUR Y2K1-YEAR 2001<br><br>SCHEDULE<br><br>2001
Schedule Announcement<br><br>schedule for the AVP Tour in
the year 2001<br><br>Date Event Site<br><br>Apr 27
-29 CLEARWATERUNKIST AVP TOURNAMENT CLEARWATER,
FL<br><br>May25 -27 YAHOO! AVP SANTA CRUZ OPEN Santa Cruz,
CA<br><br>June08 -10 MERVYN’S BEACH BASH 2000AVP HERMOSA Hermosa
Beach, CA<br><br>June15 -17 PLANTERS TRAIL MIX AVP
HUNTINGTON Huntington Beach, CA<br><br>June22 -24 PLANTERS
TRAIL MIX AVP CHICAGO OPEN Chicago, IL<br><br>July06 -
08 AVP KARCH KIRALY CLASSIC Santa Barbara,
CA<br><br>July13 - 15 SUNKIST AVP GRAND HAVEN OPEN Grand Haven ,
MI<br><br>July20 - 22 SUNKIST AVP BELMAR OPEN Belmar,
NJ<br><br>July27 - 29 PAUL MITCHELL AVP VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia
Beach, VA<br><br>Aug17 - 19 BOULDER AVP U.S.OPEN BEACH
Boulder,CO<br><br>Aug24 - 26 SUNKIST AVP MANHATTAN BEACH OPEN Manhattan
Beach, CA<br><br>Sept 13- 16 PAUL MITCHELL AVP King &
Queen of the Beach Las Vegas, NV<br><br><br><br>Details
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In latest blow to longtime series, Blanton and
Fonoimoana are expected<br> to join upstart Beach Volleyball
America tour. <br><br> Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana,
gold-medal winners in beach<br> volleyball at the Sydney
Olympics, have left the Assn. of Volleyball<br>
Professionals and are expected to join the new Beach Volleyball
America<br> tour. <br><br> With the help of their lawyers,
Blanton and Fonoimoana have been<br> released from their
AVP contracts after several months of acrimony
and<br> bitterness. <br><br> Blanton and Fonoimoana, who
fought openly with the AVP last year in a<br> dispute
over qualifying for the Olympics, are strong additions
to the<br> BVA, which started last year as a women's
tour but will add a men's tour<br> when the season
tentatively begins in April. <br><br> The move of Blanton and
Fonoimoana to the BVA is the latest blow to<br> the AVP,
which was established in 1983 but has undergone
several<br> recent changes. <br><br> The AVP's Marina del Rey
headquarters have been closed and operational<br> authority
has been transferred to Wall Street, home of the
venture-capital<br> company that rescued the AVP from bankruptcy in
March 1999. <br><br> Bill Berger, AVP chief executive
officer, has been ousted, and power<br> now rests with
Spencer Segura, senior managing director of corporate<br>
finance at Spencer Trask Ventures Inc in New York.
<br><br> "We've had our headaches with this thing," Segura
said. "We've tried to<br> let [the AVP] manage it on
their own. Only when we've had real<br> problems have
we gotten involved. Now we're getting involved."
<br><br> Segura denied that the AVP, which has remained
cash-strapped since<br> being acquired by Spencer Trask and has
yet to announce a schedule for<br> the 2001 season,
is on the verge of folding. <br><br> "It's almost a
break-even proposition," Segura said. "We wanted to get<br>
really professional management in. I think in the long
run we're going to<br> bring expert management to the
company that hasn't been seen by the<br> volleyball
arena. It's so close to working, we want to keep it
going." <br><br> Segura doubted that the BVA would pose a
threat to the AVP, even with<br> Blanton and Fonoimoana.
<br><br> "I think the AVP has a bigger following than the
BVA," he said. "If you<br> ask any beach volleyball
nut, they've heard of the AVP. They haven't<br> heard
of the BVA." <br><br> With a smaller court, a
heavier ball and rally-scored matches, the rules of<br>
the BVA mirror those of international tournaments,
including the<br> Olympics. <br><br> Segura doesn't foresee
letting AVP players out of their stringent<br> contracts
to play in BVA events. If that's the case, the BVA
will have to<br> use players who don't belong to the
AVP--Sinjin Smith, Carl Henkel,<br> Kevin Wong, Rob Heidger,
Jeff Nygaard and Dan Landry, among others. <br><br>
The problem between the AVP and Blanton-Fonoimoana
began last June.<br> Blanton and Fonoimoana were
suspended briefly by the AVP because<br> they registered
for an international tournament in Italy that was
being<br> played at the same time as an AVP tournament in
Muskegon, Mich. <br><br> The only way to earn points toward
Olympic qualifying was in<br> international tournaments.
Under the language of their contracts,<br> however,
Blanton and Fonoimoana needed permission from the AVP
to<br> compete in non-AVP tournaments. <br><br> The duo
spurned the AVP, earned enough points to qualify for
the<br> Olympics and stunned the beach volleyball world
by winning the gold at<br> Sydney. <br><br> The
animosity continued after the Olympics. A solution couldn't
be<br> found . . . until now. <br><br> "Because we are
out of our contracts, we are free agents,"
Fonoimoana<br> said. "They don't hold us hostage anymore."

Thanks for posting one of my favorite pictures of
Beef, Unca Nick. I plan on giving Beef this photo along
with his family (in one frame) the next time I see
him!<br><br>Happy holidays to everyone!<br>JC