New Victory Lanes in Mooresville, North Carolina — a center that was deeply involved in Hurricane Helene relief efforts last fall — will host the 2027 USBC Women’s Championships. The tournament was last held in the Charlotte area at centers in Huntersville and Matthews in 2007. In its modern incarnation, the event typically attracts 4,000 […]

Owen’s Craft Mixers has been named the official mixer of the 2025 PBA Tour as part of a sponsorship agreement for the ’25 season. Owen’s will receive naming rights for the PBA Owen’s Illinois Classic, to be held Feb. 3-8 at Bowlero Vernon Hills in Vernon Hills, Illinois, with its championship round airing Feb. 8 […]

President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at age 100, was a devout Christian, successful peanut farmer and savvy politician. But he wasn’t much of a bowler, although, like many politicians, he did campaign at bowling centers in the days they were packed with league bowlers (i.e., voters). While still governor of Georgia, […]

Go Bowling’s float at the 2025 Rose Parade, which aired Jan. 1 on NBC and ABC, among other platforms, was a visual delight, highlighting the sport’s iconic symbols: a ball, pins and a sign mirroring the Googie style of architecture popularized in the 1960s. Per parade rules, all of the surfaces on the float consisted […]

Frank Buffa, founder of Buffa Distribution in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Billiard and Bowling Institute of America’s Industry Service Award. Buffa becomes only the third non-American selected for the award, joining Ewa Mataya of Sweden (professional pool player, writer and television commentator; 1993); and fellow Swede Jorgan […]

Each year, the five centers that comprise Maple Family Centers — like most centers — replace their pins with new ones. During Thanksgiving week, center team members distributed thousands of pins to bowlers and community groups upon request, inviting them to paint or otherwise decorate them and enter their creations in the inaugural Holiday Pin Decorating […]

North Carolina State is scheduled to take on East Carolina in the Go Bowling Military Bowl, scheduled for Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. The game benefits Patriot Point, a 294-acre retreat for wounded, ill and injured active-duty and veteran service members

The PBS program “Frontline” devoted a recent episode to the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, which saw a total of 18 people killed by Robert Card, including eight at Just-In-Time Recreation. The program examined the many missed signals that could have prevented the incident, which ranks as the 10th-deadliest in U.S. history. […]

Everybody loves a parade, and bowling is being represented in two of America’s iconic parades this holiday season: the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City and the 136th Rose Parade presented by Honda in Pasadena, California. Smithsonian magazine described the first Macy’s Parade in 1924 as “more akin to a modest church […]