Easy Reader 54th Anniversary Writing, Photography, Video, and Cartoon Contest
2024 Easy Reader Writing, Photography, Video, and Cartoon Contest Best story: $500 Best photographs/videos: 1st prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon]. 2nd Prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon]. 3rd prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon] Deadline: Monday, August 5, 2024 Story guidelines: Submissions must be on disk or emailed. Stories may be real, imaginary or confabulated. Preference will be given to stories relating to […]
Redondo Beach 2024 Olympian: Giron runs steps at Ave. D to train for Roland Garros courts
by Garth Meyer Running the clay courts of Roland Garros at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be calves strengthened on the stairs of Avenue D, in Redondo Beach. Marcos Giron, a Redondo resident for the pasts two years who grew up in Thousand Oaks, is one of four men on the American tennis team going […]
RBHS: Olympian 2008, 2012 Sean Rosenthal
by Randy Angel Editor’s note: Redondo Beach native Sean Rosenthal went to the Olympics twice with partner Jake Gibb. They finished fifth both times, in Beijing in 2008, and in London in 2012. Rosenthal also won two AVP Manhattan Beach Opens, 2009 with Olympics teammate Jake Gibb, and in 2014 with Phil Dalhauser. The following […]
MCHS 1996 Olympian: The journeyman Olympian
How Mike Dodd won a silver medal at the Olympics first Beach volleyball competition by Mark McDermott Whatever faint hope Mike Dodd may once have harbored to be an Olympian had faded a decade and a half earlier by the time beach volleyball was named an Olympic sport in 1995. He was 38 years […]