The 2013 USBC Open Championships kicked off its 125-day run Friday as the first of more than 10,000 teams hit the lanes at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno. The tournament is making its record 11th visit to “The Biggest Little City in the World” and its eighth trip to the Stadium, where more than [...]

The United States Bowling Congress and Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America Boards of Directors have approved the creation of a unified International Bowling Campus Youth Committee. The new committee will merge the USBC and BPAA Youth Committees. “This change unifies our volunteers and business leaders in one voice for youth bowling,” said USBC Youth Committee [...]

The United States Bowling Congress Women’s Championships will undergo a major change in 2014 by shifting to four-player teams, new divisions and a new format. In addition to the change to four-player teams, from the traditional five, the tournament will return to an all-scratch format.

 Teams will be divided into four divisions based on their [...]

Doug Kent of Newark, N.Y., the winner of 10 PBA Tour titles, including four major championships, and Danny Wiseman of Baltimore, a 12-time tour winner with one major, have been elected to the PBA Hall of Fame. Kent and Wiseman will be inducted during the PBA’s Hall of Fame Dinner on Saturday, March 30, in [...]

Sharon Brummell, who led the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to NCAA women’s bowling championships in 2008 and 2011, has been elected to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies are set for March 15, coinciding with the MEAC Basketball Tournament in Norfolk, Va. When the Brummell-led Lady Hawks rolled to victory in [...]

The field has been trimmed to 16 in the 50th annual Times-News Open in Erie, Pa. A starting field of 224 was cut to 48 during qualifying action Jan. 5-6, and those 48 bowled six additional games this past Sunday. It took a 16-game total of 3569 to remain in the hunt. This weekend, the [...]

One of the great long-standing traditions of the PBA Tour has been its annual trip across the Pacific to Tokyo for the Japan Cup. The tradition continues after a two-season absence when the finals of the 26th classic airs on ESPN this Sunday (Jan. 20) at 3 p.m. Eastern from  Round1 Stadium Diver City Tokyo [...]

In an era when high-level regional bowling competition has become an endangered species, the New England Bowlers Assn. is ready to begin its 50th season. No organization has been running monthly scratch tournaments longer — dating back to when Joe Picanzo won the very first NEBA event in January 1963. NEBA is kicking off this [...]

You probably know her as Jen Petrick, a former collegiate standout who took on Shannon Pluhowsky in the televised finals of the 2003 PWBA Women’s Collegiate Shootout (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFS-Kpml2PM). These days, she’s Jen Higgins, and she recently came within one match of winning the 15th annual Dayton Open at Beaver-Vu Lanes. Undefeated through the double-elimination match [...]

Early in his PBA career, Finland native Mika Koivuniemi was tagged with the nickname “Major Mika” because his first two tour titles came in PBA majors — the 2000 USBC Masters and the 2001 U.S. Open. A decade would pass until he’d earn his third major — in the 2011 Tournament of Champions — and [...]