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Digital Collegiate Experience to connect student-athletes with college bowling programs

Digital Collegiate Experience to connect student-athletes with college bowling programs

Next month, IBC Youth Development will take the Collegiate Experience, held each summer in conjunction with Junior Gold, to BowlTV so student-athletes can learn more about college bowling programs.

Former PBA Champ Turned Proprietor Mike Fagan on How Bowling Industry Might Adjust to Post-Pandemic World

Former PBA Champ Turned Proprietor Mike Fagan on How Bowling Industry Might Adjust to Post-Pandemic World

As a five-time PBA Tour champion who now works on the proprietor side of the industry, Mike Fagan brings a unique perspective to COVID-19’s impact on both of those segments of the bowling world. The Director of Business Development for Triple Shift Entertainment, a chain of 10 bowling centers in Minnesota, took in nearly $900,000 in career earnings over

PODCAST: PBA CEO Colie Edison on the PBA's Future in a Pandemic-Stricken Sports Landscape

PODCAST: PBA CEO Colie Edison on the PBA's Future in a Pandemic-Stricken Sports Landscape

While there is no good time for a pandemic to strike, as you will hear from PBA CEO Colie Edison on this episode of The Bowlers Journal Podcast, the timing has been particularly unfortunate for the PBA. Just a season and a half into its run as a Bowlero property and following one ratings success after another with FOX, its

PODCAST: Jason Belmonte on COVID-19's Impact on His Career, His Family, and the Bowling Industry

PODCAST: Jason Belmonte on COVID-19's Impact on His Career, His Family, and the Bowling Industry

While COVID-19 has turned the world upside down for all of us, the uncertainties it presents are particularly stark for Jason Belmonte. The Australian superstar is even less sure than PBA Tour competitors residing in the United States as to when he might have the opportunity to shoe up and bowl a tour stop again. Sure, the day the PBA

SMART Corporation makes $3. 5 million investment earnings allocation

SMART Corporation makes $3. 5 million investment earnings allocation

The $3.5 million allocation is the largest investment earnings allocation made by the SMART Board over the past seven years.

Dates set for 2021 Junior Gold Championships; U20 division to kick off event

Dates set for 2021 Junior Gold Championships; U20 division to kick off event

The 2021 Junior Gold Championships that will take place July 5-17, 2021, in Indianapolis with the U20 division kicking off the event ahead of the three youth divisions.

On Earl Anthony's Birthday, Hear from His Biographer Barry Sparks

On Earl Anthony's Birthday, Hear from His Biographer Barry Sparks

As today marks what would have been 43-time PBA Tour champion Earl Anthony's 82nd birthday and you're probably spending yet another day at home as the world waits out the COVID-19 pandemic, we've got the perfect prescriptions for your cabin fever: Our in-depth interview with Anthony's biographer, Barry Sparks, and his new biography of Anthony, "Earl: The Greatest Bowler of

Bowling Took a Beating on Twitter this Week. Here's Why (and What's Being Done about It).

Bowling Took a Beating on Twitter this Week. Here's Why (and What's Being Done about It).

Any day on which tens of thousands of people are tweeting about bowling all at once is a great day for the sport, right? Well, except when many of them are tweeting things like this:The reason bowling became one of the most trending topics on Twitter Monday afternoon with, at one point, more than 33,000 people having tweeted about the

Research prompts USBC to propose adjusted specification for bowling ball hardness

Research prompts USBC to propose adjusted specification for bowling ball hardness

After conducting research and performing field tests on bowling balls used in competition, USBC proposes adjusting the specification for ball hardness to 73D for all models and eliminating field tests.

How Organizers of Two National Youth Tournaments are Grappling with Uncertainties Amid Pandemic

How Organizers of Two National Youth Tournaments are Grappling with Uncertainties Amid Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic now has claimed multiple national youth tournaments among the bowling events that have had to be cancelled in response to the health concern and economic uncertainties the virus has brought about, including, most prominently, the 2020 Junior Gold Championships and the 2020 Intercollegiate Team and Singles Championships. Also cancelled along with Junior Gold per USBC’s April 16