On Tuesday, all players will meet in the new wellness center immediately after school. We will have a meeting with Vern and the rest of the coaching staff to discuss our off season workouts. Vern will discuss in detail our goals and vision for our 2009 workouts. We will be…

So Jamie and I have taken it upon ourselves to host a dinner party. This is not something we would normally be inclined to do, but we’re in extenuating circumstances. One, there’s a birthday, and that causes people to do crazy things like have parties. Two, every month we write…

Question: What three words let you double your prices? Answer: It doesn’t matter, as long as they’re adjectives. Recently, some total genius — um, me — decided that it would be a good idea to go into London to do some Christmas shopping. (Note: Never do this.) We got to…

Merry Christmas from the Tennessee Mountains!

Well now. This HAS been exciting. First of all, I moved to England. Hurray! If you’re ever looking for something really fun to do, I recommend crossing the Atlantic with a 2-year-old. I also recommend you try to co-ordinate it so that said 2-year-old does not sleep for a second…

Exclusive Sports Marketing has officially released the schedule for the 2009 Dig the Beach Series.  Many familiar stops are included with the addition of an old favorite.  With only a few months until the season is slated to get underway anticipation is growing for what should be another very memorable…

The FHSAA has just announced that the Venice Volleyball team actually DID win a State Championship this year but it wasn't on the court but in the classroom. Venice HS Volleyball is officially the 2008 Academic State Champions. What a fantastic honor and tribute to the teams hardwork in the…

Every person who was abused as a child has a choice to make. They can beat their own kids, or they can spend the rest of their life doing everything they can to make sure it doesn’t happen to other kids. I choose the latter, and sometimes it’s a hard…

DISCLAIMER: I don’t make one thin dime if you hire any of the people I recommend in this post. ”Dear Naomi, I need help!!! I’m just starting my IttyBiz and what I need the most right now is traffic to my website. Can you help come up with ideas for…

It was an exciting match on Tuesday as Venice played their game plan to perfection against the high flying Lakewood Spartans. Next up is this Saturday against Plant at the TeePee at 2:00. This match always seems to be exciting. In the last 4 years, Plant has knocked vhs out…

After the Indians dominated their first round regional opponent, the stakes have gotten higher. St. Petersburg Lakewood comes to town on Tues. This is a very interesting match up as Lakewood boasts one of the best players in the state. Venice and Lakewood are complete opposites. We run a quick…

Manny Howard is a size-large Brooklynite with a generous spirit, a healthy capacity for self-deception and the cooking skills of a dude-ranch Escoffier. It is not uncommon for him to invite three dozen people for an early dinner and to serve them in inky darkness as children sleep on the…

BILL NIMAN is not the rancher he once was. Last year Mr. Niman walked away from the meat company he started in the 1970s with not much more than a handful of cattle and a political philosophy built on self-sufficiency.

Niman Ranch, which takes in annual sales of $85 million,…

In a new study of a fossil fish that lived 375 million years ago, scientists are finding striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates evolved into animals that walked on land.

There was much more to the complex transition than fins morphing into sturdy limbs.…

The Dig the Beach Series concluded this past weekend in Miami Beach with its series National Championship. The best teams were represented well as play continued under the lights and off into the Miami Beach night life. With teams from all divisions flooding…

Company takes grocer's waste, turns it into fertilizer. One South Florida company is attempting to turn food trash into treasure through a partnership with Publix Super Markets Inc.

How? Organic Recovery of Pompano Beach is converting the grocer's food waste into a liquid plant food for farmland, crops and…

The grassy dunes obstruct some of the Gulf of Mexico vistas that West tried to showcase in his wide-open, horizontal design.

For modern architecture such things are important; the buildings are often designed with the natural setting in mind.

But with $1.3 million spent to restore the structure…

The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team will try to rebound from its first loss of the FIVB World League - a five-set (12-25, 25-16, 25-20, 12-25, 15-13) defeat at the hands of Bulgaria - this weekend when it takes on Finland at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis.

The U.S. Women's National Team Press Kit for the second weekend of the 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix is an 80-page PDF document containing the latest news and updates on the team.

USA Volleyball submitted its 19-player preliminary rosters (0-2 Form) to the FIVB for both indoor men's and women's volleyball teams competing at the 2008 Olympic Games.

The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team travels from Japan to Wroclaw, Poland, for the second preliminary weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix that begins on June 27.

Joan Powell, team leader for the U.S. Women's National Team while it competes in the 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix, has provided the latest installment of the U.S. Women's National Team journal.