June 01, 2011
Hall of Fame profiles: Jeff Richgels
The day Jeff Richgels asked his mentor if he thought he could hack it out on tour was the day he began to learn what it takes to be great.
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April 18, 2011
Duggan looking to win again
Alternative country music star Steve Earle does a popular tune called “I Ain’t Ever Satisfied,” and when you look at the career of USBC Hall of Famer Anne Marie Duggan and the things she has had to say about it over the years, you almost start to wonder if Earle had her in mind when he wrote it.
April 13, 2011
Asbaty gearing up for USBC Queens
You might think the 15 weeks Diandra Asbaty had to prepare for the 2011 PBA Tournament of Champions after giving birth to her first child would be too little time. Then you look for her name in the tournament’s final standings and it hits you: This is no ordinary mother.
April 11, 2011
Parkin looking beyond heartbreak
When Missy Parkin of Fullerton, Calif. took the approach in the 10th frame of her match against the sport’s hottest hand in Kelly Kulick at the 2010 USBC Queens, she stood merely a mark and five pins away from moving one step closer to the women’s title she has chased for years.
March 14, 2011
Memory Lane: A pin boy's tale
You know bowling is big when you’re as likely to find lanes inside the local bar as you are in the church up the street. That’s how it was for Gary Helfrich, who grew up setting pins at the churches and bars of Buffalo as a kid in the 1950s.
February 01, 2011
Weber sets sights on elusive Masters title
Even this past Sunday at the PBA Earl Anthony Memorial Classic, where the 48-year-old Hall of Famer made his first TV appearance of the 2010-2011 PBA season, Pete Weber had it—that look in his eyes once described as “chilling enough to make small children cringe in fear.”
January 28, 2011
Masters Legends: Billy Welu
Welu's fame sent him bowling so many tournaments and exhibitions around the world that he tore a tendon in his arm. And, of course, he continued bowling nonetheless. That’s how it is when nothing short of greatness will appease you.
January 26, 2011
Masters Legends: Dick Hoover
A shoeshine stand may be an unlikely place for a legend’s life to begin, but when you’re a working-class kid prowling the streets of Akron, Ohio for some way to turn a buck in the 1940s, there aren’t a lot of options.
January 26, 2011
Mika Koivuniemi's long, hard road to history
In a news conference after winning $250,000 in the 2011 Tournament of Champions at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas, the 6-foot-4 Finn once described as a guy who “zeroes in on his prey like a leopard on one of those old Wild Kingdom television shows” allowed a rare glimpse of the man behind the leopard’s eyes.
January 10, 2011
73-year-old bowling alley discovered inside school building
Staff and students at Lakeview Elementary School always knew that history lurked in the building’s basement. That “mystique” belongs to the bowling alley constructed inside the Mahopac, N.Y. school building’s basement in 1937.