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TEXAS MILITARY TOWN GETS NEW FEC WITH BOWLING
Area 254 — a family entertainment center that includes a roller-skating rink, bowling lanes and a karaoke room, with many more attractions planned — has opened in Killeen, Texas. Killeen is a military town that’s largely dependent on the Army’s Fort Cavazos base for its economic success. 254 is Killeen’s area code.
PBA, LEAGUEPALS RENEW PARTNERSHIP
The Professional Bowlers Association has renewed its partnership with LeaguePals, provider of cloud-based bowling league management software, to continue powering the PBA League Bowler Certification program. The PBA LBC program launched in 2022 with more than 200,000 league bowlers in Bowlero Corporation-owned centers automatically enrolled. As part of the program, league bowlers receive a host […]
BCTV DEBUTS AT MAPLE LANES RVC
Maple Lanes RVC in Rockville Centre, New York, recently became the first bowling center in the nation to install Bowling Center TV — marking the beginning of a nationwide rollout that will continue through the year. BCTV features exclusive short-form content that is curated for bowling center guests, along with national and local advertising. Programming […]
‘BOWLING CLASSIC’ ADDED TO SUPER BOWL WEEK IN VEGAS
The week leading up to an NFL Super Bowl Game is busy for any host city, the calendar jammed with an array of special events. For Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, for instance, NFL Green is teaming up with the Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee, the Las Vegas Raiders, Clark County Parks, Verizon and […]
TORNADO DESTROYS TENNESSEE CENTER
Tornadoes can be terrifying because they can strike with little notice, are unpredictable in their path and can cause devastating damage. Gabrielle Vannoy was working at the Big Play bowling entertainment center — a brand new venue in Hendersonville, Tennessee, that had been open only a few months — on Dec. 10 when a tornado […]
CENTER SUSTAINS MINOR DAMAGE IN JAPAN QUAKE
The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit Japan’s west coast on Jan. 1 climbed above the 100 mark 10 days into the new year, with approximately 200 still unaccounted for. The earthquake — the country’s deadliest in eight years — left 23,000 homes without power as it destroyed or badly damaged key […]
WOOD LANES CONTINUE MARCH TO EXTINCTION
Say goodbye to another center with wood lanes. But don’t bid adieu to the center itself, because Ideal Bowling Center in Endicott, New York, has replaced those wood lanes — which were installed in 1947 — with synthetics. The center also is getting a new scoring and management system that will enable customers to order […]
SOUTH PACIFIC BOWLING IN NEW DEAL WITH BRUNSWICK
Brunswick Bowling has appointed South Pacific Bowling as its exclusive aftermarket distributor and center modernization partner in the markets of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, effective Jan. 1. Specializing in the supply, installation and maintenance of tenpin bowling equipment across New Zealand and Australia, South Pacific Bowling brings a wealth of expertise and […]
BOWLING AT SEA AND A PROPOSAL
The collegiate doubles team of Mollie Gizicki and Zach Lipson from Commerce, Michigan, along with Coach Verity Crawley, captured the title of Jackpot Classic At Sea international champions, earning $1,000 in USBC SMART scholarship funds onboard Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Epic. A field of 21 doubles teams took to the ship’s lanes in the first-of-its-kind bowling […]
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