The Senior Scratch Bowling Association of Iowa released its 2024-25 schedule earlier this week. The organization runs tournaments every month or so during the bowling season across Iowa — and occasionally the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — for bowlers 50 and older. The regular singles format is six games of qualifying followed by a stepladder finals, usually on house shots. Special format events include the 111 Doubles in which a duo’s combined ages must total at least... subscribe to read more ..read more

A big storyline at PBA50 World Series of Bowling II at JAX60 in Jackson, Michigan, has been the new Brunswick Max Life Synthetic Pins. With a slew of solid 9s, 4-9s, and cartwheeling messengers from the field of 50-year-old and older players, the Max Lifes brought to mind the infamous Twister pins that debuted around the turn of the century. It’s fun to imagine what PBA Tour players will do on the Max Lifes! There were no 4-9s in Thursday night’s stepladder finals of the 2024 PBA50... subscribe to read more ..read more

Paul Koehler averaged 240.25 to lead Wednesday’s qualifying for the 2024 PBA50 Petraglia Championship, the third event of PBA50 World Series of Bowling II at JAX60 in Jackson, Michigan, according to results posted here. And Hall of Famer Chris Barnes stayed on top and averaged 236.13 to lead qualifying for the PBA50 World Championship, according to results posted here. Koehler, who finished third in Monacelli Championship qualifying on Tuesday, fired games of 246, 170, 222, 245,... subscribe to read more ..read more

Hall of Famer Chris Barnes averaged 251.5 in dominating Tuesday’s qualifying for the 2024 PBA50 Monacelli Championship, the second event of PBA50 World Series of Bowling II at JAX60 in Jackson, Michigan, according to results posted here. Barnes’ big day also moved him into first through two of the three rounds of qualifying for the PBA50 World Championship, according to results posted here. Barnes fired games of 247, 285, 227, 228, 266, 266, 256 and 237 on the Amleto Monacelli 40... subscribe to read more ..read more

Hall of Famer Jason Couch led Monday’s qualifying at the 2024 PBA50 Ballard Championship, the first event of PBA50 World Series of Bowling II at JAX60 in Jackson, Michigan, according to results posted here. The powerful left-hander fired games of 254, 198, 228, 229, 268, 269, 231 and 279 on the Del Ballard 36 lane pattern for an 8-game total of 1,956, a 244.5 average and 72-pin lead over the 1,884 of Hall of Famer Chris Barnes. Mario Quintero of Mexico and Tony Oliva of Racine were third... subscribe to read more ..read more

PBA50 World Series of Bowling II starts Monday and runs through the following Monday at JAX60 in Jackson, Michigan. The competition is for four PBA50 Tour titles on four different lane patterns: Del Ballard 36, Amleto Monacelli 40, and Johnny Petraglia 46 for the name events, and Earl Anthony 43 for the PBA50 World Championship, the fourth of five majors this season. PDFs of the patterns are attached to this story. The Ballard Championship is Monday and Thursday, the Monacelli Championship... subscribe to read more ..read more

Don't read this story if you don't want to know the final results of the U18, U15 and U12 divisions of the 2024 Junior Gold Championships before the stepladder finals air on CBS Sports Network. Those divisions of Junior Gold were contested Monday through Saturday at eight centers in the Detroit area, with the titles decided Saturday at Strobl Arena at Thunderbowl Lanes. The 3-person stepladder finals will air on Tuesdays on CBS Sports Network: U12 on July 30 at 6 p.m. Central time, U15 on Aug.... subscribe to read more ..read more

The 2024 Junior Gold Championships are down to their final day Saturday in the Detroit area after a long day of competition Friday set the U12 stepladder finalists and cut the U15 and U18 divisions down to 12 boys and 12 girls each, USBC detailed in this news release. The end of the 16 games of qualifying on Thursday meant the first cuts were made in the competition, which started with 3,114 players. The 30 boys and 17 girls U12 advancers bowled another 4-game block before the top eight... subscribe to read more ..read more

It was no hot take to say John Janawicz would be a top player if he competed regularly on the PBA50 Tour. But even the biggest “JJ” booster probably wasn’t calling for him to become Hall of Fame title eligible before his second season was over. Yet that is what happened on Friday night when Janawicz rallied to edge top seed Mika Koivuniemi 19-182 to win the 2024 Bud Moore PBA50 Players Championship. The win was Janawicz’s fourth major title and fifth title in his short... subscribe to read more ..read more

After the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission closed its case against Bowlero Corp., dozens of former employees who say the company fired them because they were too old or in retaliation planned to sue the company, according to their attorney, as I detailed in this story in May. Attorney Daniel Dowe told CNBC in this story in May that he requested the agency close its case in April so his clients could move forward with their own lawsuit, adding that he was “delighted” the... subscribe to read more ..read more