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August 13, 2009
Royalty never knew a home as modest as the one it finds just off of Cooper Street in Arlington, Texas. There, tucked deep in a shopping center where locked cars cook under the Texas sun and Rusty's Billiards is always open, the man whom some bowling fans still refer to as "the real king" finds his throne these days behind the counter of a pro shop at a place called Spare Time Lanes. Read More
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August 10, 2009
Tommy Jones picks up his ball and prepares for his first shot under the hot lights of TV cameras in nearly a year. The same Tommy Jones who won his first ten titles more quickly than Dick Weber did, more quickly, in fact, than anyone in the history of the Professional Bowlers Association. The same Tommy Jones whom the PBA named the 30th greatest player in history just as he also prepared to turn only 30 years old. Read More
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August 03, 2009
The last time Brenda Edwards saw her father's hands, they were no longer the rough hands that gripped a drill press in the basement as her mother brought down pitchers of lemonade, the hands that worked a garden hoe as skillfully as they operated a ball spinner, the hands in which she, an 11-year-old girl who already knew so much about ball work that she could have turned a profit as a pro shop assistant, found the safest place she knew. Read More