61.   That is not to say that the Olympics have taken the beach out of beach volleyball.

62.   The differences between beach volleyball and the indoor version is more than simply playing on sand instead of hardwood.

63.   The oceanfront district of Venice is more than a boardwalk, bodybuilders, beach volleyball, babes on roller skates, gangs and tattoo parlors.

64.   The Olympics are the happy drums playing in the background while the Brazilian women become Queens of the Sand in beach volleyball.

65.   The passionate game began about five years ago, spurred by the expanding popularity of beach volleyball on television.

66.   The other afternoon, Kevin Sutherland, a machine shop foreman from Huntington Beach, was warming up for his regular game of beach volleyball.

67.   The Republicans in San Diego spotlighted several Olympic gold medalists and glorified beach volleyball.

68.   The same thing with beach volleyball.

69.   The story he tells characterizes the state of beach volleyball.

70.   There are organized power walks, exercise classes at the fitness center and beach volleyball games, too.