The former “King of the Beach” kept his crown tucked away Saturday night. Clad in jeans and a plain white shirt, Sinjin Smith hovered on the sidelines of the sand. When Hagen Smith — the son and ...

INGLEWOOD — The match, tangled in Southern California roots, felt destined for a Hollywood finish. After splitting the first two sets of Match 1 in Week 5 play of the AVP League, Megan Kraft and ...

AVP, the biggest and longest-running professional volleyball league, will play matches in an NBA arena for the first time this weekend in Inglewood. A crew picked up 16 dump truck loads from a quarry ...

The AVP League Championships return to Oak Street Beach this weekend, bringing the world’s best beach volleyball players to Chicago as they battle for the 2025 crown. 2024 Olympic silver medalists and ...

INGLEWOOD — Brandie Wilkerson has been to the mountaintop of beach volleyball. So she knows what it takes to get back. She and Palm Beach Passion teammate Melissa Humana-Paredes won Canada’s ...

MANHATTAN BEACH — Chase Budinger was a McDonald’s All-American basketball player at La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, started all 30 games his freshman season at the University of Arizona and ...

Naperville native Molly Shaw never tires of playing AVP Tour matches at Oak Street Beach. What used to seem like a far-off dream is a reality now for Shaw. Even after her season ended Saturday in the ...