Mike Fagan (pictured left) of Patchogue, N.Y., averaged 235.5 to take the second round lead Wednesday in the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open at Fountain Bowl. Fagan, who finished second to winner Norm Duke in last season’s Dick Weber Open, topped the 153-player field with a 2,355 10-game pinfall. He leads two-time Tour titlist Lonnie Waliczek of Wichita, Kan., in second by 55 pins. All players will return Thursday for a final five-game
qualifying round to determine the top 24 who will advance to match play.
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After her historic win in the Professional Bowlers Association Tournament of Champions two weeks ago, Kelly Kulick (pictured left) of Union, N.J., will return to competition in the Bayer Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles at Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Feb 16-21, 2010. Based on their qualifying ranking, the top 16 PBA Tour male players and top 16
PBA
Women's Series players will be paired together to compete in match play.
Chris Paul (l.) has made plenty of clutch shots during his basketball career, but in his bowling experiences, he had never thrown a bigger strike than the one he rolled in helping partner Jason Belmonte rally their team to victory in the Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational. The duo defeated LaMarr Woodley (r.) and Norm Duke in the title match, 180-177.
After a 14-year absence, the 67th Lumber Liquidators U.S. Open is returning to Indianapolis Feb. 21-28 where it will be hosted by Woodland Bowl – an 80-lane bowling center which has played a prominent role in the sport's colorful history for two decades. In 1991, who can ever forget Pete Weber's near-perfect 289-184
U.S. Open victory over Mark Thayer – after which Weber hoisted the
"eagle" trophy over his head only to watch it crash to the floor
(pictured left) and explode into pieces?
The biggest question of the PBA Tour season is, who will become the next unlikely hero in a season filled with unlikely heroes. He or she could emerge from the 67th Lumber Liquidators U.S. Open, the final major championship of the 2009-10 season. Thus far, Tom Smallwood (l.) won the PBA World Championship and Kelly Kulick (r.) stunned the sports world with her victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions.
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.
With the help of four Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour stars and a star-studded lineup of celebrities, New Orleans Hornets All-Star point guard Chris Paul will again highlight his "second-favorite sport" in the second annual Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational which airs Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. Celebrity icons Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Hines Ward, LaMarr Woodley Jack Del Rio teamed with PBA stars Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Wes Malott and Jason Belmonte in a unique doubles competition to benefit Paul's CP3 Foundation.
Kelly Kulick has had a feel for bowling history all her career and now she knows how it feels to become a big part of that history. The 32 year-old from Union accomplished one of the most amazing feats in sports eight days ago by becoming the first woman to win a Professional Bowlers Association national tour stop in the 51 years of the organization. And it came in one of bowling's most prestigious events, the 45th running of the Tournament of Champions.
In his eighth season on the Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour, Mike Fagan (l.) of Patchogue, N.Y., finally won his first individual Tour title in the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open Sunday at Fountain Bowl. It will be an especially memorable win for Fagan as he defeated PBA Hall of Famer and all-time win leader Walter Ray Williams Jr. (r.), 241-213, in the championship match to earn the $25,000 first prize.
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).
PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke (l.) began defense of his One A Day® Dick Weber Open title Wednesday as competition got underway at Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley, Calif. Sunday's finals will shift from the PBA's normal home on ESPN to "the Deuce" – ESPN2 (1 p.m. Eastern) – for this week only. In addition to Duke trying for his 34th career title, Hall of Famer Pete Weber (r.) will try to win his 35th in the event named after his legendary father.
Southern California native and seven-time PBA titlist Robert Smith (pictured left) averaged 233 after five games Wednesday to take the first round lead in the PBA One A Day® Dick Weber Open at Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley, Calif. Smith topped a field of 153 bowlers with a 1,166 five-game pinfall to hold a three-pin lead over 12-time titlist and 2005-06 PBA Player of the Year Tommy Jones (right) of Simpsonville, S.C. in second.
Reflecting on his victory at the 2009 USBC Masters, John Nolen (pictured) uses phrases like "magical" and "something special" to describe that week. When Nolen arrives in Reno, Nev., to defend his title, he knows he will need some of that magic to return in 2010. Nolen again will take on a field of the country's top professional and amateur players in the 2010 USBC Masters, one of the Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour's four major championships. Competition begins Feb. 9 and concludes with the live ESPN finals Feb. 14 at 3 p.m. EST.