The last thing Kelly Kulick could have imagined as she rolled her way to victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions in January was that her historic victory would lead to a visit to the White House. And beyond simply acknowledging her as the first woman to win a Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title, Kulick found herself being honored as an American pioneer who had carved out a unique place in the nation's history as the first woman to win a major championship in a male-dominated professional sport.
Kelly Kulick (pictured), the first woman to win a Professional Bowlers Association Tour title, has accepted an invitation to visit the White House for a reception to be hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The event, on Monday, March 8 at 4 p.m. Eastern, is in celebration of Women's History Month. Kulick won the PBA Tournament of Champions – the PBA's signature event and one of the Tour's four major events – on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas.
Live on PBA.com's Xtra Frame from Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge Saturday evening, Chris Barnes broke into the win column as the winner of the Chris Barnes Challenge presented by Columbia 300 II. Barnes (l.), a 12-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour titlist and the 2007-08 Player of the year, defeated 34-year-old pro shop manager Shawn Lee (r.) of Centennial, Colo., 590-480 in the three-game total pins match to win the $2,000 pot.
Bonus online coverage of Kelly Kulick's return to PBA Tour action headlines this week's programming
Nearly 30,000 bowling fans got a unique inside look at the USBC Masters last week, thanks to a week of free Xtra Frame coverage offered by USBC and the PBA,. And there's more to come for Xtra Frame subscribers this week as PBA Tournament of Champions winner Kelly Kulick returns to competition in the Bayer Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles in Wheat Ridge, Colo.
According to the Professional Bowlers Association on Sunday's finals of the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open, Pete Weber (pictured) had a run-in with an eager cameraperson, who snapped a picture prior to his release of a shot during his match with Bill O'Neill. Weber's subsequent outburst led to quite a bit of discussion on ESPN's Sportscenter, as well as the popular ESPN talk show "Pardon the Interruption". For a clip from that,
PBA.com visitors who have not yet subscribed to its online video service Xtra Frame will now be able to take advantage of a free promotional offer to watch the United States Bowling Congress Masters Feb. 8-14, 2010. Those who take advantage of the free USBC Masters coverage offer will also be able to tune into Xtra Frame's SportCenter-style news program PBA: 39x60 which provides exclusive pre- and post-finals coverage.
Three of last year's top 5 are repeat finalists in Sunday's live ESPN2 finals
Mike Fagan (l.) of Patchogue, N.Y., earned top-qualifier honors Friday for Sunday's stepladder finals of the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open at Fountain Bowl. His 9,136 39-game overall pinfall was 172 pins ahead of PBA Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. (r.) who qualified second for the finals. Fagan and Williams will be joined by Pete Weber, Ryan Shafer and Bill O'Neill in Sunday's live ESPN2 finals at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific).
Kelly Kulick's news media express continues to race along in the wake of her historic victory in the Professional Bowlers Association Tournament of Champions last Sunday at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas. Since her victory, Kulick has conducted a steady stream of newspaper, television and radio interviews in addition to a national teleconference which is now available in its entirety by clicking on the link below.
One A Day®Dick Weber Open finals move to ESPN2 for this week only
Bill Simmons (pictured), popularly known as "The Sports Guy" by his thousands of followers on ESPN.com and Twitter, will join the Professional Bowlers Association broadcast team of Rob Stone and Randy Pedersen for Sunday's finals of the One A Day®Dick Weber Open. The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour finals will move to ESPN2 for one week only. The Dick Weber Open finals will air at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific).
Second-largest ESPN audience in 10 years watches historic telecast
Immediately after the second-largest television audience in 10 years watched Kelly Kulick's (l.) historic victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions, the significance of her achievement began to resonate around the world. No sooner had the telecast, which drew a 1.52 Nielsen rating (more than 1.7 million viewers), ended than National Football League star Terrell Owens broke the news to his throng of Twitter followers: "Kelly Kulick just defeated Chris Barnes 265-195 to become the first woman ever to win the PBA Tour!! Congratulations Kelly!"
One A Day® Men’s 50+ named Official Multivitamin of the 2010 Tour
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) and Morristown, N.J.-based Bayer Consumer Care have agreed to a renewed and expanded association. One A Day® Men’s 50+ has become the official multivitamin of the 2010 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour in addition to the already established partnership with Bayer Aspirin as the official pain reliever of the Tour. One A Day® Men’s will sponsor three bowlers - Wes Malott, Jason Belmonte and Mike Scroggins.
Watch Bowlingdigital's slideshow with the highlights of the year
The Tenpin Bowling Year 2009 was filled with action, record-breaking performances, great comebacks as well as stunningly surprising or long-overdue breakthroughs. The PBA pros went globe-trotting and Asians, Americans and Europeans tested their skills in the inaugural PBA World Series of Bowling. Spearheaded by Philippine legend Paeng Nepomuceno, the international USBC silver coaches have certified numerous bronze coaches all over the world. To watch Bowlingdigital's slideshow with the highlights of the year 2009
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Tom Smallwood defeated Wes Malott in an absolutely thrilling PBA World Championship final showdown. This tournament finale brings to an end the inaugural World Series of Bowling, which over the last year has been debated nearly non-stop on the PBA message boards and through the media. The WSOB spanned a little over a month in August and September. Seven different PBA tournaments were conducted in that span of time alongside Women's Series events, and even the PBA Senior World Championship.
As a holiday gift to bowling fans around the world, the Professional Bowlers Association is posting a re-broadcast of the ground-breaking PBA Cheetah Championship on pba.com. The online broadcast of the 90-minute PBA World Series of Bowling event will give thousands of bowling fans an opportunity to sample what pba.com Xtra Frame subscribers get to see on a regular basis.
Unemployed General Motors assembly line worker’s success story resonates with American public
In the wake of Tom Smallwood’s victory in the PBA World Championship in Wichita, Kan., his inspirational story has attracted extensive media attention from a variety of prominent national and Detroit area media outlets. The 32-year-old Smallwood, like many others felt the hardship of losing his job when the former assembly line worker was laid-off from General Motors a year ago. But he turned that misfortune into a success story by earning an exemption on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, and then winning one of professional bowling’s most prestigious titles.
Newman University senior Derek Hartnell overcame a 77-pin deficit to defeat PBA star Chris Barnes, 719-698, in the first Chris Barnes Challenge presented by Columbia 300 at Northrock Lanes Saturday. Hartnell finished his third game with five strikes as Barnes lost the pocket after throwing a near-perfect 289 in game two of the three-game, total pinfall match. Hartnell won the $3,200 pot, 719-698.
Newman University collegiate bowler Derek Hartnell has posted the winning $1,600 bid in the winner-take-all Chris Barnes Challenge presented by Columbia 300 on Saturday at 3 p.m. Central at Northrock Lanes. The three-game, total pinfall, winner-take-all match will be contested on the Blue lane conditioning pattern being used in the Pepsi Red, White and Blue Open currently underway at Northrock Lanes and it will be broadcast exclusively on pba.com's Xtra Frame as it happens.
Winner-take-all event to be webcast live on PBA.com's Xtra Frame on Dec. 12
When the PBA announced the All-In Action Sweeper side event during last summer's World Series of Bowling, the $5,000 winner-take-all entry fee created a buzz in the bowling community. But there was one problem – only one bowler put his money down to bowl in the event. That player was 2007-08 PBA Player of the Year Chris Barnes, a 12-time PBA Tour titlist and one of the most versatile players in PBA history.
Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour fans can submit questions for Dec. 13 PBA World Championship
Every sports fan would like to ask a question of a player or announcers during the heat of competition, so the Professional Bowlers Association is going to give fans that opportunity during live telecasts of Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour events starting Sunday, Dec. 13. During ESPN's live coverage of the championship round of the PBA World Championship from Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kan., at 1 p.m. ET on Dec. 13, fans will be able to submit their questions during the show.
The PBA has announced the 63-player field for the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions, set for Jan. 19-24, 2010 at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas. The stepladder finals will be telecast live by ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 24. Kelly Kulick (l.) will make history again as the first woman to compete in the prestigious PBA event. Another trend-setter in the field is Jason Belmonte (r.) of Australia who will be the first two-handed player to compete in the ToC.
The last thing Kelly Kulick could have imagined as she rolled her way to victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions in January was that her historic victory would lead to a visit to the White House. And beyond simply acknowledging her as the first woman to win a Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title, Kulick found herself being honored as an American pioneer who had carved out a unique place in the nation's history as the first woman to win a major championship in a male-dominated professional sport.
Kelly Kulick (pictured), the first woman to win a Professional Bowlers Association Tour title, has accepted an invitation to visit the White House for a reception to be hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The event, on Monday, March 8 at 4 p.m. Eastern, is in celebration of Women's History Month. Kulick won the PBA Tournament of Champions – the PBA's signature event and one of the Tour's four major events – on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas.
Live on PBA.com's Xtra Frame from Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge Saturday evening, Chris Barnes broke into the win column as the winner of the Chris Barnes Challenge presented by Columbia 300 II. Barnes (l.), a 12-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour titlist and the 2007-08 Player of the year, defeated 34-year-old pro shop manager Shawn Lee (r.) of Centennial, Colo., 590-480 in the three-game total pins match to win the $2,000 pot.
Nearly 30,000 bowling fans got a unique inside look at the USBC Masters last week, thanks to a week of free Xtra Frame coverage offered by USBC and the PBA,. And there's more to come for Xtra Frame subscribers this week as PBA Tournament of Champions winner Kelly Kulick returns to competition in the Bayer Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles in Wheat Ridge, Colo.
According to the Professional Bowlers Association on Sunday's finals of the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open, Pete Weber (pictured) had a run-in with an eager cameraperson, who snapped a picture prior to his release of a shot during his match with Bill O'Neill. Weber's subsequent outburst led to quite a bit of discussion on ESPN's Sportscenter, as well as the popular ESPN talk show "Pardon the Interruption". For a clip from that, 
Mike Fagan (l.) of Patchogue, N.Y., earned top-qualifier honors Friday for Sunday's stepladder finals of the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open at Fountain Bowl. His 9,136 39-game overall pinfall was 172 pins ahead of PBA Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. (r.) who qualified second for the finals. Fagan and Williams will be joined by Pete Weber, Ryan Shafer and Bill O'Neill in Sunday's live ESPN2 finals at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific).
Kelly Kulick's news media express continues to race along in the wake of her historic victory in the Professional Bowlers Association Tournament of Champions last Sunday at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas. Since her victory, Kulick has conducted a steady stream of newspaper, television and radio interviews in addition to a national teleconference which is now available in its entirety by clicking on the link below.
Bill Simmons (pictured), popularly known as "The Sports Guy" by his thousands of followers on ESPN.com and Twitter, will join the Professional Bowlers Association broadcast team of Rob Stone and Randy Pedersen for Sunday's finals of the One A Day®Dick Weber Open. The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour finals will move to ESPN2 for one week only. The Dick Weber Open finals will air at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific).
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) and Morristown, N.J.-based Bayer Consumer Care have agreed to a renewed and expanded association. One A Day® Men’s 50+ has become the official multivitamin of the 2010 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour in addition to the already established partnership with Bayer Aspirin as the official pain reliever of the Tour. One A Day® Men’s will sponsor three bowlers - Wes Malott, Jason Belmonte and Mike Scroggins.
The Tenpin Bowling Year 2009 was filled with action, record-breaking performances, great comebacks as well as stunningly surprising or long-overdue breakthroughs. The PBA pros went globe-trotting and Asians, Americans and Europeans tested their skills in the inaugural PBA World Series of Bowling. Spearheaded by Philippine legend Paeng Nepomuceno, the international USBC silver coaches have certified numerous bronze coaches all over the world. To watch Bowlingdigital's slideshow with the highlights of the year 2009
Tom Smallwood defeated Wes Malott in an absolutely thrilling PBA World Championship final showdown. This tournament finale brings to an end the inaugural World Series of Bowling, which over the last year has been debated nearly non-stop on the PBA message boards and through the media. The WSOB spanned a little over a month in August and September. Seven different PBA tournaments were conducted in that span of time alongside Women's Series events, and even the PBA Senior World Championship.
As a holiday gift to bowling fans around the world, the Professional Bowlers Association is posting a re-broadcast of the ground-breaking PBA Cheetah Championship on pba.com. The online broadcast of the 90-minute PBA World Series of Bowling event will give thousands of bowling fans an opportunity to sample what pba.com Xtra Frame subscribers get to see on a regular basis.
In the wake of Tom Smallwood’s victory in the PBA World Championship in Wichita, Kan., his inspirational story has attracted extensive media attention from a variety of prominent national and Detroit area media outlets. The 32-year-old Smallwood, like many others felt the hardship of losing his job when the former assembly line worker was laid-off from General Motors a year ago. But he turned that misfortune into a success story by earning an exemption on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, and then winning one of professional bowling’s most prestigious titles.
Newman University senior Derek Hartnell overcame a 77-pin deficit to defeat PBA star Chris Barnes, 719-698, in the first Chris Barnes Challenge presented by Columbia 300 at Northrock Lanes Saturday. Hartnell finished his third game with five strikes as Barnes lost the pocket after throwing a near-perfect 289 in game two of the three-game, total pinfall match. Hartnell won the $3,200 pot, 719-698.
Every sports fan would like to ask a question of a player or announcers during the heat of competition, so the Professional Bowlers Association is going to give fans that opportunity during live telecasts of Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour events starting Sunday, Dec. 13. During ESPN's live coverage of the championship round of the PBA World Championship from Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kan., at 1 p.m. ET on Dec. 13, fans will be able to submit their questions during the show. 
The PBA has announced the 63-player field for the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions, set for Jan. 19-24, 2010 at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas. The stepladder finals will be telecast live by ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 24. Kelly Kulick (l.) will make history again as the first woman to compete in the prestigious PBA event. Another trend-setter in the field is Jason Belmonte (r.) of Australia who will be the first two-handed player to compete in the ToC. 
