AVP Chicago Open: The shove, the winners, the shoes, the league ahead

Call it “The Shove Seen Round the World Wide Web.”

Plenty of other highlight-reel moments and compelling storylines were present as the AVP concluded the traditional “bracket” phase of its 2024 season with the third Heritage Series event in Chicago over the Labor Day Weekend.

But social media exploded on Saturday, Day 2, when USA Olympian Chase Budinger and the AVP’s resident “bad boy,” Trevor Crabb, engaged in an on-court exchange...