A trio of former Lakewood Lancers made some interesting headlines during a busy week for local products in Major League Baseball. Matt Duffy and Travis d’Arnaud were both involved in a move by the Tampa Bay Rays last Friday. Five days after d’Arnaud was picked up by the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Rays acquired the […]
The Long Beach State men’s track and field program won its fifth Big West Conference championship in the last seven years last weekend at UC Santa Barbara. The Beach scored 169.5 points to become the first program in Big West history to win 11 titles. It is also the sixth conference championship for LBSU this […]
This week on the show Mike & JJ talk to Lakewood volleyball coach Mike Wadley and decide if the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is the best team in Long Beach sports history. 00:00 Is Long Beach State Men’s Volleyball the best ever? 08:00 Offseason Reset Interview with Lakewood Coach Mike Wadley 27:20 Athletes […]
We’ve got an exclusive sit-down with the national champions, as we’re talking with head coach Alan Knipe and stud players TJ DeFalco, Josh Tuaniga, Nick Amado, and Jordan Molina. Hear behind the scenes stories from the coach and players about a special and historic season. Episode 34 – Back To Back Champs! A National Title […]
Congratulations to this week’s winners and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. TJ DeFalco, Long Beach State Volleyball It didn’t take much deliberation to decide on TJ DeFalco as a College Athlete of the Week. The Long Beach State senior led his team to back-to-back national titles and was awarded MVP of the […]
It was a night they’ll be talking about for a long time. Inside their home arena, the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team became the first program in school history to win back-to-back NCAA championships, taking down Hawaii in the Pyramid in a battle of the two best teams in the nation. Hawaii took the […]
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When the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team hosted Senior Night against Hawaii a few weekends ago, there were more than 4,600 fans in attendance, the largest men’s volleyball crowd in school history. As that epic crowd came to a hushed silence for the national anthem, there may as well have only been two people […]