Scott Frager, Publisher of International Bowling Industry Magazine, has announced that the leading magazine in the business of bowling will host the IBI Un-Conference at Sea from Nov. 13-20, 2010 sailing from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Turks & Caicos, San Juan, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. The un-conference is an un-traditional conference format. YOU decide the agenda. YOU bring your interests, your issues, your ideas. YOU interact with experts and your peers during special events dedicated to bowling.
In cooperation with Flavio Cuva and Beat Grauwiler Bowlingdigital.com has published more than 140 videos in the past four years, Since all videos are in high quality and most recently even in High Definition, many users with lower bandwidth were unable to open even the downsized versions. Therefore we have uploaded most of our videos onto YouTube and will add new videos frequently. To watch Bowlingdigital's videos on YouTube
John Davis, founder of Florida-based Kegel company, the industry leader in lane machines, met with ETBF president Addie Ophelders and members of the ETBF Technical Committee at Dream-Bowl Palace, Unterföhring, Germany Jan. 22-24, 2010. Davis donated two portable Kegel Lane Mapper to the ETBF for charting the lanes in European bowling centers who want to participate in the ETBF Center Certification Program.
Brunswick Bowling & Billiards and Strikeforce Bowling, LLC, have announced that they will combine their sales teams in order to serve bowling pro shops and distributors more efficiently and more effectively. Steve Caffrey, vice president sales for Brunswick Aftermarket & Consumer Products, and Brad Handelman, president of Strikeforce Bowling LLC, said the consolidation will allow both Brunswick and KR Strikeforce to provide superior customer service and improved efficiencies.
Super Bowl Entertainment, LLC, the Texas-based bowling center chain owned by Jamie Brooks, (l.) Randy Isenberg (r.) and partners, is announcing that Brooks has sold most of his share of the seven center operation to Isenberg and partners, effective immediately. The chain includes seven Texas centers. Brooks, a former President of the BPAA, and been in the bowling business since 1955, owning and operating more than 40 centers in that time.
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
Brunswick Bowling welcomes a new member to its sales team. John Petraglia, Jr., has joined the capital equipment sales team and will support proprietors in the East Coast area including, New York, northern New Jersey and all of the New England states. "Petraglia has grown up in a family that has been a large part of the history and heritage of Brunswick Bowling and Billiards, and we are excited to have him represent Brunswick," said Dan Borgie, director of Eastern Regional Sales, to whom Petraglia reports.
Inazawa Grand Bowl in Japan, featuring 116 consecutive Brunswick Bowling wooden lanes on a single floor, which are being replaced and upgraded with Brunswick Pro Lane™ synthetic lanes in early 2010. The claim to establish the largest bowling center as a Guinness World Record category was submitted by Vice President Capital Equipment for Brunswick Bowling Products, Jim Fox. 
Bundesverband Bowling, the Proprietors' Association of Germany, has announced that Eurosport will continue to show the PBA Tour in 2010 on Eurosport 1 and 2 and broadcasts from the European Bowling Tour. Highlights could be two live broadcasts, one from the Men's World Championships in Munich, Germany. The costs of the TV deal are shared by Bundesverband Bowling and the
bowling industry.
Crave Entertainment, the full-service publishing and distribution division of FillpointSVG, one of the videogame industry’s leading providers of online distribution, fulfillment, and e-commerce services for national retailers, has announced Brunswick Pro Bowling is now available for download exclusively to Apple iPhone and iTouch users. Brunswick Pro Bowling features real pin and ball physics including changing oil patterns and lane conditions, as well as customization options ranging from character to ball to music selections all for --$4.99.
In its continuing effort to help enhance peoples' lives through bowling, The Bowling Foundation has awarded 15 grants to schools and organizations worldwide. The grants are part of The Bowling Foundation's annual "Mobile Bowling Equipment" program for schools, parks and recreation departments, disabled and disadvantaged service groups and other organizations and youth groups.
Brunswick Bowling announces its fall series of over 20 seminars designed to "Try it Before You Sell It". All Product Premiere events will include demonstrations of the newest Brunswick balls with the opportunity to buy or pre-purchase. Bowling legend, Carmen Salvino (right) will be on-hand during some of the seminars. 
The South Eastern Michigan Bowling Center Association (SEMBA)
has taken local, grass roots bowling leagues to the next level by
negotiating an exclusive bowling league partnership with the 11-time
Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings.
After months of working with the team's various departments, they put
together a 12 week bowling league for 60 centers throughout Michigan.
For the first time in Canada, 'tweens', teens and adults can go Space Bowling, toss bowling balls through the Tomato Factory and take aim at Target Challenge™. That's because Virtual Bowling by Brunswick is the feature attraction at Canadian theater giant Cineplex Entertainment's new XSCAPE entertainment center at SilverCity Newmarket Cinemas. Virtual Bowling is designed to help build traffic and revenues by
attracting today's video game generation and anyone who enjoys the
great fun of bowling.
Six-time sponsor Brunswick supplied the lane maintenance support and products, which along with high-scoring Brunswick Pro Lane™, allowed four perfect games, for 121 bowlers at the 2009 Lee Evans Tournament of The Americas. Three perfect games were bowled with a Brunswick ball by (r-l) Andrew Koff, John Szczerbinski, both United States, and Arturo Hernandez, Venezuela, as well as an 810 series (Koff) at the 80-lane Boardwalk Bowl center in Orlando.
As reported earlier, Paeng Nepomuceno, 4-time 45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Champion and record holder of 3 Guinness Book of World Records in the sport of Tenpin Bowling, is the Philippines Nutrilite Brand Ambassador and a member of Team Nutrilite. According to Nutrilite/Amway, !Team Nutrilite boasts a group of world-class athletes committed to achieving their potential while striving towards optimal health." Paeng has made a commercial for Nutrilite/Amway, which is shown nationwide in the Philippines.
As part of National Bowling Week festivities, the bowling industry will attempt to make history when thousands of bowling centers across the nation take part in an effort to set a new world record for the most bowling games rolled in a single day. In order to get the ball rolling, participating Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) member centers have invited the public to bowl their first game for free in an attempt to break the current record of 548,721 bowling games played in a single day.
OnTheBallBowling.com was "hooked" by Bass Pro Shops – ranked the #1 Outdoor Retailer in America by Sporting Goods Business Magazine - to create a collection of House Balls for its brand new outdoor themed bowling center scheduled to open in Altoona, IA in late August. OnTheBallBowling.com has become the "preferred" bowling ball maker for
the rich and famous having produced exclusive customized balls for 5
time Grammy Award winner singer/songwriter John Legend and platinum
recording band Nickelback. 
