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Dale Traber&amp;#39;s 2009: A Year to Remember

August 26, 2009

Dale Traber's 2009: A Year to Remember

The hammer that Dale Traber formed with clutched fists and swung after the strike that gave him his 2009 USBC Senior Masters victory was a hammer he brought down on more than just opponent Ross Packard's dreams of capturing a major title on the PBA Senior Tour.

Ryan Lingholm: The Other Side of Two-Handed Bowling

August 19, 2009

Ryan Lingholm: The Other Side of Two-Handed Bowling

Lingholm's habit of adjusting to his circumstance without the slightest trace is self-pity is exactly the reason that, just weeks into her job as manager of the AMF bowling center in Boynton Beach where Lingholm works, Maureen Delvin has already found in Lingholm one of the most inspiring people she has ever met.

Meet Ron Williams: bowling&amp;#39;s original king

August 13, 2009

Meet Ron Williams: bowling's original king

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.

The trials of Tommy Jones

August 10, 2009

The trials of Tommy Jones

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.

U.S. Women&amp;#39;s Open Profiles: Brenda Edwards

August 03, 2009

U.S. Women's Open Profiles: Brenda Edwards

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.