

“Something Happened” immediately transcends its particulars and becomes a probing and insightful look at relationships on every level, about identity and commitment and family and about figuring out who we are and how we fit in, and then dealing with and adapting to any new configurations that may eventually arise. You can be any color under the rainbow and still have to face this, many times, in your own life.

Over the past four decades, Mike Dodd has peered across the sand at the greatest beach volleyball players the sport has ever seen.
But when Dodd – an Olympic silver medalist in his own right – was named commissioner of the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) in February, he changed his focus from the spikes and blocks at the net to something much deeper – the grass roots of the sport.