Vegas, Baby: Coverage from CWL Las Vegas and LoL All-Stars with Scump, Dashy, Pobelter, and Travis Gafford - Cheddar Sports 12/10/18
Las Vegas played host to two distinctly different tournaments this weekend. CWL' Las Vegas, the first offline tournament for new game Black Ops 4, cemented Optic Gaming's status as the team to beat. Meanwhile, Riot's League of Legends All-Stars event was a weekend of lighthearted fun, with highlight performances from newly minted G2 midlaner Caps and Australian toplane upstart Pabu in the 1v1 tournament and Doublelift and Voyboy in the 2v2.
Paola Alejandra and Locodoco report from both tournaments, featuring interviews with Optic's Scump, Dashy, Karma, Crimsix, and Hector Rodriguez, G2's Blazt, Flyquest midlaner Pobelter, Vitality midlaner Jiizuke, and journalist Travis Gafford.
Megan Rapinoe suffered an early injury for the OL Reign in its championship match against Gotham FC over the weekend, in the last game of her storied career.
Selling beer and wine inside college football stadiums has become the norm over the past decade, a way for schools to bring in more revenue and attract fans who might otherwise be inclined to stay home.
Five-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin was at the top of her sport when a shoulder injury forced her to retire. After that, her father was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that forced her family to come together to support him. Now Franklin is working with Otsuka Pharmaceutical to raise awareness of genetic diseases and ADPKD, the disease that affected her father.
Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills football player who suffered a cardiac arrest during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals in January, was back in the city over the weekend.
