If Los Angeles were to host the Olympics in 2024, the City of Long Beach itself would play host to Olympic Sailing along the Belmont Pier, Water Polo in a temporary facility and more, Mayor Robert Garcia announced Thursday morning.
"Why are they crying?" asked a Millikan football player last Friday night, gesturing toward a group of middle-aged gentlemen who had returned to the playing field of their youth to help honor Millikan's late, great head football coach, Dick DeHaven.
Cal State Long Beach was graced with a surprise visit by rap superstar Drake last night, who showed up to support his goddaughter at her volleyball game in the Walter Pyramid. His attendance proved to be good luck, as the powerful Beach women beat their opponent Loyola Marymount University 3-0.
Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross defeated a Spanish volleyball team to claim victory Sunday in the final of the World Series of Beach Volleyball (WSOBV) as the series came to a close in Long Beach, held on the sands of Alamitos Beach. Meanwhile, the third-seeded Brazil team beat top-seeded Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the men’s final.
The single-elimination section of the $800,000 World Series of Beach Volleyball on Alamitos Beach in Long Beach began today with three rounds for the women and two for the men.
The Asics World Series of Beach Volleyball at Alamitos Beach has kicked off its third day of matches between Olympic-level athletes today.
The thought of running 26.2 miles for fun is not a common, dare I say sane, thing for a person to contemplate. Add in the fact that according to Greek prose, the race derives from the ill-fated trip of a courier named Pheidippides delivering news of victory at the Battle of Marathon—he died—and it’s understandable that on average only half of one percent of the United States population has undertaken this challenge before.
If you happened to miss the epic beach volleyball battles served up at the 2016 Rio Olympics, fret not, for the Asics World Series of Volleyball (AWSOBV) will bring more than a few heavy hitters to Long Beach to throw down once again, during the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) tour’s kick off Grand Slam event this week.
