The South Bay Just Had Its Own Championship Weekend. Missouri’s Sports Betting Market Is Having One Too.
https://unsplash.com/photos/saint-paul-skyline-and-mississippi-river-9CPAjGVB378 Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz didn’t just win the AVP Manhattan Beach Open again this year. They made history doing it, three-peating at the sport’s most prestigious tournament without dropping a single set, going a perfect 6-0 across the weekend. The 2024 Olympians are only the second team ever to win three straight MBOs, and they’re already talking about chasing the four-peat record held by Kerri Walsh-Jennings and Misty May-Treanor. Brasher, the 6-foot-4 power hitter known as “The Basher,” and the 5-foot-6 Cruz, “The Digger,” dispatched Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft in the final, capping a weekend where they didn’t lose a set to anyone. For a stretch of California coastline that treats beach volleyball the way other places treat football, it was exactly the kind of weekend the South Bay lives for. A Different Kind of Season Opener While Manhattan Beach was celebrating its own version of a title run, a different kind of competition has been unfolding a couple time zones away. Missouri’s sports betting market went fully live on December 1, 2025, and bet365 was one of the operators there on day one…
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