Ever since last year’s AVP Pro Beach Volleyball tournament in downtown Riverside, I have been looking forward to seeing the schedule for 2010.  I received an email a few days ago that the schedule was posted on avp.com, so I checked to see if Riverside was on the list.  Nope. Although I thought it was [...]

I am looking for places to play volleyball out here in Riverside. I am mainly looking for open gyms, but I would also like to find out about leagues and grass tournaments.  The only volleyball open gym that I have found out here is in Moreno Valley, so over the past few weeks I have [...]

OK… I know… this is the third post in a row about the Riverside Open pro beach volleyball tournament.  Why so many posts? I like volleyball. This is the first AVP pro beach volleyball tournament in Riverside. Six Olympians played in the finals today. All of the above. I took my daughter to the Riverside [...]

The AVP Riverside Open pro beach volleyball tournament begins today.  Since there is no beach in downtown Riverside, I drove down to Market / Third a few times over the past week to see how asphalt could be transformed into a beach. OK, so it’s not exactly the beach, but it’s pretty cool to see [...]

Pro beach volleyball in Riverside?  As someone who has played a fair amount of beach volleyball at the actual beach, I’m amazed to be writing “Riverside” and “beach volleyball” in the same sentence. The AVP Crocs Pro Beach Volleyball Tour is holding the Riverside Open next weekend (April 17-19) in downtown Riverside.  This is a [...]