Olympic Volleyball News

At an age when many people have slowed down, Joyce and Lloyd Woods are speeding up.

During afternoons, especially on weekends, the city youth can be found at three places - " in cinema halls howling and whistling at some violent/vulgar scene, at TASMAC shops gulping a - quarter' and getting drunk or on some available open space running, hitting and kicking a ball.

North Allegheny senior volleyball player Kyle Gregan, who's considered one of the top middle blockers in the nation, signed a letter of intent to attend Pepperdine in Malibu, Calif.

Five former Longhorn stars were inducted into the University of Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor on Friday.

Olympic dream lives For Deborah Wiles, carrying the torch was the realization of a cherished ideal By DEBORAH WILES Sat.

Bethlehem Special Olympic teams won 25 medals -- including multiple golds -- during the 21st annual Villanova University All-Pennsylvania Olympic Fall Festival.

A few figure skating observations as the Grand Prix series heads into its last event before the Dec.

High school senior Sarah Denninghoff moved from Alabama to Tucson when she was 13, and she quickly joined Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics and enrolled at Sabino.

Neatorama's own Johnny Cat has got the best idea concerning the Olympics that I've heard in a long time.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. a ' Sasha Cohen's comeback has taken another setback. The Olympic silver medalist withdrew from Skate America on Monday, saying she is still battling the tendinitis in her right calf that forced her to drop out of last month's Trophee Eric Bompard before the event.

FORMER US coach Jenny Lang Ping, who helped launch China's first privately owned volleyball team this week, has called for a free market in player transfers to help the sport progress.

November 12, 2009 8:34 p.m. Paduaa s Kaitlyn Leary, a senior outside hitter, splits the defense of Walsh Jesuita s Kate Meyer, left, and Lauren Eicher last month.

THEY'RE under starters orders a ' and now they're off. Preparations for the 2012 London Olympic Games got under way in Leeds after the heads of the Serbian National Olympic Committee dropped in for a recce.

Being part of the Olympic Games is a team sport for one Troy family. Marlo Moeller, who serves as president of the parent-teacher organization at Smith Middle School, and husband Jim, a sports medicine physician who practices in Auburn Hills, stay busy with their children, Lindsay, 14, Hannah, 12, and Kelsey, 9. For six weeks this winter, Marlo ...

Revelstoke skier Lachlan Hicks has been chosen as Revelstoke's official torchbearer and will run the Olympic torch into town when it arrives here on Jan.

Dorothy Franco-Reed remembers hearing the crashes of broken lamps amid the thuds of a volleyball against her bedroom walls.

It seems Kelly Reeves was born to play volleyball at UCLA. Reeves, a Cathedral Catholic High senior, entered the world at the UCLA hospital as the daughter of an alumna who earned All-America honors for the Bruins before winning an Olympic silver medal on the 1984 U.S. women's team.

The three-day event will conclude today in the capital. [China Daily] More than one year after its debut as one of the world's largest Olympic venues, the Bird's Nest remains a financial albatross.

The Tantasqua, Shepherd Hill and Whitinsville Christian volleyball teams have all advanced to postseason play, and with all three squads in different divisions, all three can become District champions.

There are only 1,000 days until the 2012 Olympics starts in spectacular style. Already plans are being put in place to ensure the county's venues and athletes will be hitting the gold standard in time for the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012.