PBA Regional Bowling Should Be On Xtra Frame

Are you missing Bowling on Sundays? I know I sure am. I look forward to watching the best of the PBA battle it out every week. Now that we are in the off season, and I feel like all I have to do is go bowl in my once a week summer league, and that is all the bowling I get to soak in. I thought of signing up for PBA Xtra Frame, but without live competition going in, this would mostly be watching re-runs and would quickly get old.

For this reason, I wish the PBA would add their regional tournaments to Xtra Frame. They could skip on the qualifying round, of course, but show the match play all the way up to the Championship. I know if they did, they would gain at least one paying subscriber, and am am quite certain many others. PBA regionals can be a blast to watch, and trust me, the regional bowlers are very good bowlers as well. Many of them are aspiring Tour bowlers and could compete at the Tour level.

My message to the PBA, add regionals to Xtra Frame so we can see all the excitement they have to offer, not too mention getting a glimpse of the future stars of the sport.

The PBA Tour is Going on Break: Join a PBA Experience League

The PBA Tour is currently holding their last event for the 2009-2010 season, and this means, other than re-runs on ESPN Classic, the end of bowling on tv for a while. What better time than now to join the PBA's exclusie service XtraFrame and be able to watch lots of shows, and qualifying rounds anytime you want?

Not too mention, now is a good time to home your skills. You have now spent the last few months watching the superstars of our sport compete, how they play the lanes, what equipment they use, etc. Now how about you join a PBA experience league and see how you stack up to them? Will you hit all your spares? Will you even consistently hit the pocket on the much more demanding oil patterns? Summer time is the best time to try new things, and trust me, if you get through a PBA experience league, you will be a better bowler than before you started.

To find out more about PBA experience leagues, check out bowling's official website here.

The PBA Bracket Battle Is On!!!

Soon enough, the PBA's GoRVING.com Match Play Championship will begin, and boy will it be exciting. The entire tournament is match play and you have the opportunity to pick the winner. If you go to the PBA's official website, you can sign up for the PBA Bracket Battle and pick your favorites in each match all the way to the championship! YOu can win great prizes, like autographed merchandise, or a free one year subscription to the PBAs Xtra Frame service. Good luck!

http://www.pba.com

Michael Fagan Wins His First PBA Tour Singles Title

Michael Fagan has finally overcome the hump. Although he already had one PBA Tour title, it was a double's event where he and Danny Wiseman won together. Well today at the One A Day Dick Weber open, he finally won his first singles event, defeating Walter Ray Williams Jr by the final score of 241 - 213.

Fagan won in dramatic fashion by striking in the 9th frame and the first two balls in the 10th, shutting out Walter from having a chance at winning. Walter looked as though he was going to take the game over, but he ran into some issues with carry and it just was not his day.

Also making the show was Pete Weber, who I am sure would love to win the tournament named after his late father, but Walter Ray continued his dominance on Pete on tv.

Congratulations Mike on a great victory today!

Kelly Kulick Wins the PBA Bowling Tournament of Champions

In dramatic fashion, Kelly Kulick has won the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions. This marks a historic day for Kelly, as well as women's sports everywhere. She has proven that you do not have to be male to compete in a male dominated sport.

Kelly won this tournament against all odds, playing against a field consisting of only previous tournament winners as well as multiple hall of fame bowlers. In her last game against Chris Barnes, it seemed as though she could not miss. Pending better carry with her pocket 7 ten split, she could have bowled a 300.

This year, the PBA Tour has been full of feel-good stories and is a marketing's dream. At first, Tom Smallwood, having been laid off from GM, focused on his bowling career and win his first PBA tournament, and a major at that. Then, Anthony LaCaze became a first time PBA tournament winner at the Earl Anthony Classic, and under the hard conditions they bowled in made this victory quite amazing. Now we have the first woman to win a PBA Tour victory and I have never been so emotional and yelled so loud every time she struck!

Many critics out there have been fairly hard on the PBA Tour for all they are doing to promote the sport, and many have been hard on the women, saying they are part of the reason tv ratings have went down. Well Kelly has officially shut them up winning this tournament and shown that women have a place in the PBA Tour, and in my opinion, shown that they belong and can compete in other sports as well. Congratulations Kelly on this great victory and this historic day!