AVP Huntington Beach Preview: Favorites, new teams, sleeper picks

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — It has been a proper off-season for those playing on the AVP Tour. A full eight months without competing in a domestic event. Eight months to train and lift and watch film until your eyes fall out. Eight months to get hungry for a three-tournament sprint of an AVP season beginning Thursday in Huntington Beach, California for the first Heritage Series of the year.

But that, for the first time in the sport’s history, isn’t all.

Should that three-tournament...