Phil Dalhausser’s wife is Jennifer Corral, a fellow beach volleyball player. Jennifer played collegiate volleyball at Ventura College before transferring to Tennessee State. Her sophomore campaign at Ventura was quite impressive. Jennifer was named both the Women’s Volleyball Athlete of the Year and the Academic Athlete of the Year for the Western State Conference. The 30 year old Corrall played in a few AVP tournaments, though as of publishing in July, 2012, appears to be inactive on…

After four years spent as the quarterback at the University of Northern Colorado, Dominic went undrafted and wasn’t getting any free agent bites from the NFL. He had come to grips with the reality that his NFL dream was not going to happen and was preparing to move on to a career working with troubled youth – and then he got a phone call that changed his life. In 2008, Dominic attened a program called…

After he won a bronze medal for the USA in the 100-meter breaststroke last night, it’s high time that we cover Brendan Hansen’s wife Martha Hansen. Brendan Hansen met future wife Martha Guleke at the University of Texas where she was also a swimmer. While at the University of Texas, Brendan never lost a breakstroke race – and he didn’t lose the girl either. Brendan married Martha in 2010 and the couple is now expecting…

I’m starting to wonder about the pecking order of alpha males at the University of Oregon. With most schools, especially a school with the sports success of Oregon, I’d put the football team at the top and the rest of the teams can fight it out for the scraps. After doing a few Olympic posts I’m wondering if I might have this all wrong when it comes to Oregon. The talent that the men of…

Performance enhancing drugs are an issue plaguing professional sports organizations across the globe. Here in the United States it’s an obvious hot button issue that’s garnered millions of headlines, debates, suspensions and the occasional Congressional hearing. Much like other organizations, the International Olympic Committee does not take performance enhancing drugs lightly. Though in case like this,… it’s kind of difficult to not take it at least a little bit lightly. LaShawn Merritt is an American…

Is it possible to win an Olympic gold medal and still have no one know your name? If we had a chance to pose that question to Dawn Harper I think she would respond with a resounding yes. In 2008 Dawn took home the gold for Team USA in the 100 meter hurdles. This alone should have made Dawn a household name, however Dawn happened to be in the event with one Lolo Jones. See…

For our third and final post focusing on the people rumored to be lighting the flame at the 2012 London Olympics, we move on to Daley Thompson. Full disclosure, I don’t like Daley Thompson and I really hope that he isn’t chosen to light the 2012 Olympic Flame tonight in London. I didn’t know much about Daley Thompson before we began researching the people who might potentially be asked to light the Olympic Flame –…