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> can you name some of them? out of many? Nancy Reno and Angela Rock come to mind but I don't have access to all of the articles. It was all over Usenet news
by OldGuyInTheClub 4y ago
> can you name some of them? out of many?
Nancy Reno and Angela Rock come to mind but I don't have access to all of the articles. It was all over Usenet news rec.sport.volleyball of the time.
> That in reality happened in 1998, with the rally point system, the single biggest change in regulation in the history of volleyball.
> As a player I did not agree with it at first, but as a spectator it surely improved the appeal of the game.
Did not for me. It took a year or two for it to propagate into the US Collegiate game which I followed closely at the time. That along with the libero sealed the deal for me.
> If volleyball wasn't a very popular sport
I was referring to Acosta's scandal-ridden tenure which never got the ink since the sport is still fairly niche.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> the sport is still fairly niche. that's an american cebtric view. When Italy won the World Championship in Rio in 1990 the game was aired in the middle of the night at home, an entire nation watched it and rejoiced for the victory. Lorenzo Bernardi and Karch Kiraly were appointed best players of the 20th century. The sport had its first spike at the end of the 80s soon after Acosta became president, the rest was simply improving on that.