Apparently, nothing is forever. A former Forever 21 store has been selected to house the first metropolitan Phoenix location of Round1 Bowling and Amusement. The venue — featuring Round1’s usual mix of bowling, various social games, karaoke and cutting-edge arcade games from Japan — will be a part of the Arrowhead Towne Center in Glendale, […]

Stars and Strikes has selected Myrtle Beach, S.C., for its 16th location and third in South Carolina. The 52,000-sq.-ft. venue will include 24 bowling lanes, a 10,000-sq.-ft. arcade, a multi-story laser tag arena, axe throwing, a chef-crafted food menu and a large full-service bar packed with big-screen TVs. The Coastal Grand Mall will house the center, […]

The 2023 Junior Gold Championships, USA Bowling National Championships and Bowling.com Youth Open Championships will run July 10-22 at multiple bowling centers in and around Indianapolis. The U20 competition will kick things off July 10-14, followed by the U12, U15 and U18 divisions July 14-22. The USA Bowling National Championships will be contested July 12-13, and […]

The inventory of lanes in Las Vegas has been down by 60 ever since March 2020 when Red Rock Resorts shuttered its Texas Station casino and two other properties. Those three resorts — Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson being the other two — never reopened, and now it has been announced that they never will. […]

One of the most experienced executives in the bowling business, Roger Dalkin, has been named Executive Director of the Bowling Centers Association of Wisconsin. The appointment became official on Aug. 1. Dalkin had been serving as BCAW’s program director under long-time E.D. Yvonne Bennett, who retired last year. A national search for a successor to […]

Emma McCrary, who literally grew up in her parents’ bowling center — Paoli Rock-N-Bowl in Paoli, Ind. — is the 2022 recipient of youth bowling’s most lucrative honor, the $25,000 Daroll and Dee Frewing Scholarship. McCrary follows in the footsteps of Andrew Amore of Ohio, the scholarship’s first recipient in 2020, and Avery Schenk of […]

The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame has created of a new award to recognize an individual, institution or organization that recently made an extraordinary contribution to the Hall of Fame. The first recipient is John Tierney, who received his award at Bowl Expo. Tierney, a retired California bowling center proprietor, donated more than […]

The USBC and BPAA have reached location agreements for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open. The U.S. Open will be heading back to Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis all three years, while the U.S. Women’s Open will be held at ABC Gates Bowl in Rochester, N.Y., in 2023 […]