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Kerri Walsh Jeings, the all-time wiingest beach volleyball player and three-time Olympic gold medalist, has refused to sign an agreement with the Association of Volleyball Professionals to play during its 2017 season, begiing with this weekend’s Huntington Beach Open.Walsh Jeings won the event last year with teammate April Ross before going on to capture the bronze medal in beach volleybal...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jeings is set to play two matches today as men’s and women’s main draw play begins in the $800,000 World Series of Beach Volleyball on Alamitos Beach in Long Beach. Seven days after wiing Olympic bronze medals, Walsh Jeings and April Ross will face Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Taylor Pischke at 9:50 a.m. and Brazilians Carol and Ana Patricia at 4 p.m. in pool play matches. There will be two rounds of women’s play and one round of men’s play today. The men’s and women’s fields will both be reduced to 24 teams at the conclusion of Thursday’s play. Walsh Jeings and Ross are seeded first in the 32-team women’s field from 15 nations. The Brazi...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Before the Olympics began, Kerri Walsh Jeings said she welcomed the thought of playing one of host Brazil’s duos and facing a potential hostile environment. “In our minds,” the three-time Olympic champion joked, “since we don’t speak Portuguese, I think we’ll pretend that they’re cheering for us.” That would have taken quite an imagination Tuesday. In suffering her first loss ever in Olympic beach volleyball, Walsh Jeings and partner April Ross were clearly the villains as they fell to Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas, 22-20 and 21-18. And that quickly, one of the most decorated volleyball careers - male or female, sand or indoor - took a stuing tu, a tu from ano...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It always has been among the most popular events at the Olympics, right there with the long jump, high jump and triple jump. It’s the conclusion jump, which is bound to happen when the world gathers in one spot and a narrative that’s so easy to perpetuate emerges, quickly gaining the unstoppable momentum of the torch relay. So there’s no doubt what you’re thinking while reading the following sentence: Another day at the Olympics, another Olympian offering commentary on the accommodations. Here’s guessing, however, that you didn’t stick this landing: “It’s really incredible. Our building is great. Our room is amazing.” April Ross said she even has a balcony, from which she c...