BLANTON, CEMAN COME OF AGE.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer One used to spend the night at the beach as a kid, waiting to secure good seats for the next day's final. The other shagged shag 1 n. 1. A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair. 2. a. A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth. b. Cloth having such a nap. 3. A rug with a thick rough pile. volleyballs for tour events, hoping one day people would be shagging Shagging may refer to:
Sunday, in the finals of the $300,000 AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. Hermosa Beach Grand Slam, Dain Blanton and Canyon Ceman officially announced their intentions of shaking up the tour they used to marvel at as kids. The pair knocked off top-seeded Kent Steffes and Jose Loiola 15-13 in overtime, avenging a loss earlier in the day to the team which had won seven of the previous nine tournaments and had yet to be tested in this, the first leg of beach volleyball's grand slam. The event, played before an overflow crowd in a 4,000-seat arena on the south side of Hermosa Pier, culminated a controversial weekend for the Association of Volleyball Professionals The AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) was founded in 1983 by Leonard Armato. The organization started its own American beach volleyball mens tour in 1984. By the late 80's, the tour was experiencing tremendous growth, in part through the promotion of the sport by , which was forced to move the most prestigious of its events out of Manhattan Beach after legal wranglings with a local activist group, the South Bay Coastal Alliance. The SBCA SBCA Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association SBCA Small Business Council of America SBCA Small Business Credit and Assistance SBCA South Bay Community Association SBCA Somerset Bridlewood Community Association , led by Hermosa resident Donley Falkenstien, picketed the tournament, which drew an estimated 20,000 fans over three days. ``We are protesting the corporate prostitution of a public beach,'' said Falkenstien. ``If the AVP is going to prostitute the beach, we're going to be here.'' The AVP first raised the group's eyebrows when it attempted to sell tickets to last season's Manhattan Beach Open. The SBCA took its plea to the California Coastal Commission The California Coastal Commission is a state agency in the U.S. state of California with quasi-judicial regulatory influence over land use and public access in the California coastal zone. , which subsequently ruled in May that no tickets would be sold to an event on public beaches between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The AVP was forced to look elsewhere to stage the Open, which had been in Manhattan since 1960, when a judge ruled that the event might not have complied with the parameters of the California Environmental Quality Act The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California law (California Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq.) passed in 1970, shortly after the Federal Government passed the National Environmental Policy Act. . Away from the picket signs, however, the controversy did little to shake Ceman and Blanton. The seventh seeds earned their first tour victory and $60,000, their part of the richest prize ever offered on the AVP tour. |
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