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The FIVB has finalized the pool schedule for the 2011 World League! Yehey! (Is this the unofficial poster?) Poland will host the Final Round for the 3rd time in 10 years (2001 & 2007). The Final Round will now have 8 teams instead of 6. (The more the merrier!). The top two teams from each […]
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Pinheiros won the Paulista Championship by beating Volei Futuro in 3 sets. To Watch the Match, go to this YouTube Channel. Side Dish: After this VF defeat, we read that the owners of the club are planning on terminating the coach. Yikes! This Soninha chick is good! We love her! Congrats to Pinheiros for winning […]
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Just Kidding! Serious now… The FIVB will change the libero system starting in 2011 and the main change is to allow libero-for-libero replacements. Really? Here’s more info from the FIVB site: The new freedom will allow teams to replace the Libero with a second Libero – or with a regular replacement player – as often […]
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Breaking News! Russian star and veteran, LIOUBOV Chachkova Kilic SOKOLOVA, has announced that SHE WILL NOT BE PLAYING FOR RUSSIA NEXT YEAR. Are you SERIOUS girlfriend? If this is TRUE ( well we hope she’s just kidding when she said this at a recent interview!), then that means Russia will play in the 2011 European […]
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Congratulations to CLAY STANLEY for winning USA Volleyball’s CLAYmate MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR! Where’s the party at BB? Read the FULL USA Volleyball Article, click HERE. (We’re just assuming!) Since Clay was too shy to speak about his award, Coach Knipe spoke on his behalf: “What people don’t know about Clay is that he […]
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All In One Post! Neslihan Darnels honors her ex-COACH & she is also nominated as Athlete Of The Year, Turkish Federation fires women’s coach, Fenerbahce gets punished by Belgorod.
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We hope she was not texting but initial police investigation says she was. This is a such a tragic news for Kaitlyn, the victims and for their loved ones. From the article: Police believe that Dunaway was using her cell phone at the time of the accident — possibly texting — and simply didn’t see […]
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British Olympic Association CONFIRMS the participation of Great Britain’s Indoor Volleyball teams. REALLY? We <3 the Brits BUT WE DON’T THINK IT MAKES SENSE for their unranked and inexperienced volleyball teams to play in the Olympics. Come on now! We know they are HOSTing the Olympics but another STRONG team won’t hurt. We knew this […]
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We’re not sure if this is the official poster for the 2011 World League but we just need to SHARE it for everyone to see! We love it! We love how serious and intense the players look like! The main thing we notice right away is that we don’t see any player from Brazil. How […]
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The good thing is it’s just a MINOR injury! BB sprained his ankle while his team Lube Macerate played against a team from Modena for the Challenge Cup.
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We hope this is NOT something serious! Italian setter, Eleonora Lo Bianco, has confessed the reason why she DID NOT play a few days ago when her club team, BERGAMO, played against Russia’s Dinamo Moscow. Bergamo suffered its second defeat in the Champions League. Lo Bianco has released this statement (Translated via Google Translate): “Last […]
Hey boys and girls. Talking Turtle is back at ‘cha after Rounds 1 and 2 (some) are officially in the books! What have we seen – upsets, obvious wins, meltdowns, and just some awfully easy ball? I think we have seen all of this and more at the beginning of the 2010 tournament. As always there […]