E-dition Nos. 1,062-1,063 • Friday, June 21, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) Weather Looks Good for Bowl Expo Week in Vegas The bowling world will be converging on Las Vegas — specifically, the Paris Las Vegas Resort and the Las Vegas Convention Center — for BPAA’s International Bowl Expo beginning this weekend. It’s going to […]

E-dition No. 1,061 • Friday, June 14, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) FOX Management ‘Thrilled’ With PBA Ratings Viewership for this year’s PBA competition surged through the first five months of 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour telecasts. During that time, 20,923,000 viewers tuned in to watch the PBA on FOX, FS1 or FS2, including repeats […]

E-dition No. 1,060 • Friday, June 7, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) A D-Day Anniversary Salute to America’s Veterans On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord — code named D-Day — the Allied invasion of northern France. By daybreak, […]

E-dition No. 1,059 • Friday, May 31, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) PBA to Award $100,000 to Winner of PBA Playoffs This Weekend After 13 tournaments and nearly six months of competition, the inaugural PBA Playoffs will culminate this weekend as the “final four” return to Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine, for a pair of […]

E-dition No. 1,058 • Friday, May 24, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) More Changes Ahead for National Bowling Stadium? Anyone who has visited this year’s USBC Open Championships venue at the South Point Tournament Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas knows that big changes are coming to the National Bowling Stadium in Reno. A large display […]

E-dition No. 1,057 • Friday, May 17, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) Kathy Leitgeb to Retire as E.D. of New York State BPA Kathy Leitgeb is retiring as Executive Director of the New York State Bowling Proprietors Association. Her final day will be in a few weeks, and a dinner in her honor was held […]

E-dition No. 1,056 • Friday, May 10, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com) ‘Sole Society Lounge’ to Be Hosted by Turbo and Dexter Turbo and Dexter have announced plans to provide pro shop operators with a place where they can slow things down and preview new products in a relaxed atmosphere during International Bowl Expo week […]

E-dition No. 1,055 • Monday, May 6, 2019 Editor: Bob Johnson (bjibob@aol.com)   A Fond Farewell to BJI’s Own Tom Kouros “He drafted his first book in longhand filling up dozens of legal pads,” writes Lyle Zikes in his “Pro Approach” column in the June issue of BJI. “What made its way onto typed pages, […]