After more than four decades in bowling and 124 titles in five continents, Philippine bowling legend
Paeng Nepomuceno has been sharing the secrets of his success with his fellow bowling athletes and coaches. The
Mastering the Mental Game seminar, which was held on Wednesday, May 1, at Paeng's Midtown Bowl in Metro Manila, Philippines, attracted USBC Bronze and Silver level coaches as well as a mix of veteran and youth bowlers. Due to the overwhelming response, Paeng has scheduled another seminar for Saturday, May 25, at the same venue.
The accomplishments of eight new members of the USBC Hall of Fame were celebrated Thursday night as the group earned bowling's ultimate honor. The eight individuals were formally inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame at the Eldorado Hotel and Casino. Jason Couch of Clermont, Fla., and Lynda Barnes of Double Oak, Texas, were inducted for superior performance.
Ayman Hashem (l.) of Egypt won his second international title within two days after defeating his fellow countryman Mahmoud Atef (r.), 201-145, in an all-lefty championship match of the Asian Bowling Federation Tour Egypt leg Wednesday at International Bowling Center in Cairo. One day after he won the 15th Sinai International Open at IBC, Hashem became the first Egyptian bowler to win an ABF Tour title.
With the announcement Monday in Sports Illustrated that NBA player Jason Collins is the first athlete in a major team sport to publicly acknowledge that he is gay, PBA star Scott Norton (pictured) knows firsthand what the realities can be for an athlete who comes out. As an athlete who is gay, the 2012-13 PBA Player of the Year contender knows very well what the ramifications of being openly gay can mean to someone who makes a living in sports.
Ayman Hashem (l.) gave Egypt its first Sinai International Open title since 2006 while Korngunya Aree (r.) retained the women's title for Thailand Tuesday at the International Bowling Center in Cairo, Egypt. Hashem and Aree entered the men's and women's stepladder finals at different ends of the spectrum, seeded No. 1 and No. 4, resp. The top seeded player had to be defeated twice to win the title. The top 16 Asian men advanced to the Egypt leg of the 2013 ABF Tour.
South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, the United States Bowling Congress (USBC), Las Vegas Events (LVE) and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) have announced a 12-year deal to host several annual USBC events, including the USBC Open Championships and USBC Women's Championships, both citywide, and inside a new, $30 million bowling tournament facility at South Point starting in 2013.
The title match of the QubicaAMF German Open 2013 was a all women's affair with No. 1 seed, Lisa Kabowski (l.) of Germany and second-seeded Joline Persson-Planefors (r.) of Sweden squaring off. The Swede won the final two-game total pins round, 488 to 412, to win her first European Bowling Tour title and the 7.000 Euro top prize. Kabowski (r.) received 4.000 Euro for second place. Third-place Pasi Uotila of Finland won the men's ranking in Berlin.
The 2013 European Bowling Tour features 19 tournaments in 13 countries. In its 14th season, the EBT consists of two Platinum, six Gold, four Silver and seven Satellite tournaments. The total prize fund is about one million Euro. The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. Those points will be tabulated throughout the season to determine the top 16 men and top 16 women who will compete in the seventh EBT Masters in in Tilburg, Netherlands, in March 2014.
Team USA members Mike Fagan (pictured left) and Kelly Kulick (right) will represent the United States at the 2013 World Games this summer in Cali, Colombia. The duo will look to give Team USA its first gold medal in World Games competition. Since the World Games began in 1981, the United States has won two silver medals and three bronze medals but has been shut out of the gold medals in the event, which is held every four years.
The Maryland Eastern Shore women and Robert Morris-Illinois men hoisted the Kerm Helmer Cup on Saturday, earning national titles at the 2013 xbowling Intercollegiate Team Championships. Maryland Eastern Shore (l.) swept Pikeville, 2-0, to take the trophy, while Robert Morris (r.) knocked off McKendree, 2-0, to take the men's title.
Tolga ÅžiÅŸmanoÄŸullar and Myria Kastori won the first gold medal for Turkey and Cyprus in the 16th Mediterranean Challenge Cup when the No. 5 seeds emerged as Masters champion in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the title matches, ÅžiÅŸmanoÄŸullar defeated Ioannis Maroussis, Greece, 417-363, and Kastori took down Fausta Regali, Italy, 428-349.
The 2013 USBC Women's Championships got underway at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center as the first of more than 4,200 teams took the lanes Friday. The 94th edition of the world's largest participatory sporting event for women made its record eighth trip to Reno as bowling fans and local dignitaries cheered on the opening squad that featured 30 teams. The RSCC was transformed from an empty room into a 44-lane state-of-the-art facility in approximately eight weeks. 
The Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress has released Bulletin No. 1 for the 17th Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships Sept. 7-14, 2013 at South China Athletic Association Bowling Center at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, China. Boys and girls will compete in Singles, Doubles, four-player Teams, All Events and Masters. The boys and girls Masters stepladder finals will be staged at the 12-lane training facility (pictured) inside the Hong Kong Sports Institute
Online registration for the 11th Columbia 300 Vienna Open, a European Bowling Tour and World Bowling Tour event, opens this evening, April 10 on the tournament's website http://www.viennaopen.com. The EBT "gold" tournament will run from Sept. 30 - Oct. 6, 2013 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, and offers total prize fund of 75.130 Euro with 7.000 Euro going to the winner. The VO awards a PBA international title if won by a PBA member.
We did not know John Davis the way Len Nicholson did, or Chris Chartrand or Pat Ciniello, all three friends and colleagues of Davis's for years who spoke at the memorial service for him in February. It was held at the most appropriate possible place: the Kegel Training Center at Kegel headquarters in Lake Wales, FL. Davis died Jan. 25. "He tried to do something that no one else did," as Nicholson says. "He tried to make the sport as fair as possible." 
Mikael Kanold is a young talented Swedish bowler, a member of the Swedish youth national team, and not known for becoming angry very often. His compatriot Martin Larsen, World Doubles champion and Jason Belmonte, the High Roller champ from Australia brought this video to our attention. It shows why all bowling center proprietors teach their customers NOT to cross the line between the approach and the lane. Actually it gives the expression 'foul line' a new meaning. Enjoy. 