“So I made my way around and jumped on Hov’s back, and he took a couple of steps back and pinned me to the hood of a car and knocked the wind out of me.” It’s instructive to note that Hovland was one of the finest athletes to ever come out of the Los Angeles city section, adept at a number of sports in high school including football, basketball. While waiting for the festivities close by to the players’ hotel, Smith, Stoklos, Dodd and Hovland were in the parking lot “horsing around” and having a little “pre-party.” “Hov and Randy were about 10 to 15 feet apart from each other in three-point stances ready to go after it,” Smith says. It was at the end of June in 1988 in Boulder when the fireworks occurred before the post-event party. One truism about the Cuervo events is that they threw the best parties on tour. The Jose Cuervo tequila events were big prize money events, and there was a BIG difference between first-place booty and the scraps that were paid out to the rest of the finishers. That is, they were collegial most of the time. “I am sure Smith and Stoklos would give us at least two Rhode Islands for a Manhattan or Cuervo!”Ĭonsidering the intensity of their rivalry, off the sand both pairs were surprisingly civil to one another as they traversed the country, arriving early at tournaments to drum up publicity and evangelize for each other and the sport. But remember Hovland and Dodd were the big-game hunters,” Hovland said.
“They might have a slight edge on the total.
Over a nine-year period, between 19 these two teams met in the finals a whopping 62 times with Smith and Stoklos holding the advantage, 35-27. Arguably, the fiercest rivalry in beach volleyball history was the one between Tim Hovland/Mike Dodd and Sinjin Smith/Randy Stoklos.
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