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March 14, 2011
You know bowling is big when you’re as likely to find lanes inside the local bar as you are in the church up the street. That’s how it was for Gary Helfrich, who grew up setting pins at the churches and bars of Buffalo as a kid in the 1950s. Read More
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February 01, 2011
Even this past Sunday at the PBA Earl Anthony Memorial Classic, where the 48-year-old Hall of Famer made his first TV appearance of the 2010-2011 PBA season, Pete Weber had it—that look in his eyes once described as “chilling enough to make small children cringe in fear.” Read More
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January 28, 2011
Welu's fame sent him bowling so many tournaments and exhibitions around the world that he tore a tendon in his arm. And, of course, he continued bowling nonetheless. That’s how it is when nothing short of greatness will appease you. Read More
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January 26, 2011
In a news conference after winning $250,000 in the 2011 Tournament of Champions at Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas, the 6-foot-4 Finn once described as a guy who “zeroes in on his prey like a leopard on one of those old Wild Kingdom television shows” allowed a rare glimpse of the man behind the leopard’s eyes. Read More
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January 26, 2011
A shoeshine stand may be an unlikely place for a legend’s life to begin, but when you’re a working-class kid prowling the streets of Akron, Ohio for some way to turn a buck in the 1940s, there aren’t a lot of options. Read More