Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith: The late-night, bowling alley dance-off
By Mikey O’Connell | September 5, 2010
There are plenty of historical moments you just wish you could have been a part of. This one’s no exception. Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith recently met on a bowling alley dance floor to compare moves, but only one emerged victorious.
After appearing at Bieber’s August 31 concert at Madison Square Garden — which apparently had quite the roster of guest stars — TMZ reports Smith joined the singer at Manhattan’s Lucky Strike Lanes & Lounge.
When Kevin Rudolf’s “You Make the Rain Fall” came on, the boys got down to business, showing off their moves for everyone at the private party. And though witnesses say they both “killed it,” Bieber’s moonwalk secured the win for him.
Not satisfied by these grainy images? TMZ also says Bieber’s documentary crew got the whole thing on tape, so one day you might just be paying to see it in 3D.
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At 12, he’s the youngest to bowl a perfect game in Hernando County
By Derek J. LaRiviere, Times Correspondent
In Print: Friday, September 3, 2010
SPRING HILL — With a nod of approval, the old record holder handed off his achievement to the new owner.
For 16 years, Jason Mahr reigned as the dominant force in Hernando County bowling. He was voted an inaugural member of the county’s Hall of Fame in 2008, won the Professional Bowlers Association Spring Hill Open the year before and holds nearly every individual local record — now with one exception.
That’s because Justin Paxton, 12, just took away the first mark Mahr ever set. On Aug. 21, Paxton, of Port Richey, tossed a perfect game at Spring Hill Lanes to become the youngest bowler to ever accomplish that feat in Hernando County.
Justin Paxton, 12, at Spring Hill Lanes, recently became the youngest bowler to roll a perfect game in Hernando County
When Mahr was 13, he started his run of exceptional play by doing the same thing.
It was Aug. 21, 1994, at Mariner Lanes in Spring Hill. He had just turned 13. Mahr used that day to catapult himself toward many other accomplishments on the lanes, including an 878 series and multiple county high-average titles. Only a couple of years ago, he started to burn out on the sport.
“I wish the best for Justin and the rest of the kids today,” Mahr said. “I hope they don’t lose the desire like I did and remember that at the end of the day, it’s just a game.”
Over the past couple of years, Mahr has taken time off from bowling, but the torch has seemingly been passed with the breaking of his initial record. Paxton threw his 300 on the first week of youth league play at Spring Hill Lanes.
“When I found out that he did it the same exact day I did, but 16 years later, that was pretty ironic,” Mahr said. “It was only a matter of time until someone came along and did it, and he deserves it.”
After starting with a first-game 201, Paxton tossed 12 consecutive strikes for his second-game 300. He finished with a third-game 179 for a 680 series.
There’s no telling what lies ahead for Paxton, but there is no denying he has talent.
Paxton took up the sport only 2 ½ years ago after flirting with the idea of playing quarterback for many years. He took his last snap in the Pasco Police Athletic League and picked up a bowling ball.
It was a natural turn for Paxton, whose father, David, has been a mechanic at bowling centers for the past 24 years. David Paxton is currently a lane mechanic at Spring Hill Lanes. He was more than thrilled to see his son take up the pastime. He caught on quickly.
“He never needed bumpers, and he was throwing a hook within six months,” the elder Paxton said. “He has a real strong wrist from playing quarterback, and I think that helps him a lot.”
Last year, Justin tossed a 777 series at age 11. He has put in a lot of hard work to get to this point, and he plans on continuing to do so.
He has dreams of PBA superstardom, but he keeps grounded with college plans as well. In the past eight months, he has earned almost $700 worth of scholarship money bowling in various youth tournaments, and hopes that total will grow in years to come.
Just days ago, Paxton rolled an 800 series on the nose in practice, missing another perfect game with a ringing 10-pin in the ninth frame. He is aiming to become the youngest bowler to toss a sanctioned 800 series.
With the help of PBA instructor Jeffrey Marks, who also assists youth bowlers Darian Curtis and Anthony Caso, Paxton has improved by learning various hand releases and balance at the foul line. Given his experience level, he is improving at a fast pace.
“He’s just fascinated by (bowling),” his father said. “He has a big backswing like Jason Mahr. I just brought him up here to throw some balls, and the rest is history.”
Las Vegas Hospitality Association Holds Team Building Bowling Event
The Las Vegas Hospitality Association’s (LVHA) annual team-building bowling event was held at The Orleans Bowling Center in August (Photo Credit: David Cherkis Photography).
The Dreamers team with players Anthony Bartolomeo (Metropolitan Expositions), Kathy Perlsweig (Mandalay Bay), Michelle White Sukala (MGM Grand) and Mike Pergola (Edlen Electric Exhibition Services) won top trophies with the highest score.
Two games were played with the first being a team-building game with 10 different challenges ranging from pushing the bowling ball from a seated position to bowling between the legs of three teammates. The second game was played normal.
To fortify the team spirit a costume challenge was another dynamic element that was won by Rockin’ Bowl team (above) made up of Jennifer Cheung (Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville), Jamie Malloy (Green Valley Ranch), Cyndi Stumbo (Freeman), and Tristan Wood (Trump International).
The highest score by a woman was won by JoLynn DeMera on Freeman Audio Visual Solutions’ Alley Cats team and for the men Mike Pergola on the winning The Dreamers team captured the honor.
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104-year-old bowler is on a roll
Waterford, MI –Rolla Zuck bowled a 224 on Monday in his daytime senior league at Century Bowl. He said it was the first time he eclipsed 200 in a year and a half.
One of Zuck’s league teammates, Bettie Meredith, said Zuck must have had a memory lapse because he actually bowled a 232 on Sept.22, two days after his 104th birthday.
Zuck’s Monday total of 515 was 86 pins more than his average, a score that led the first two days of a four-day tournament. Still, he didn’t seem overly excited.
“Right now I’m not bowling real good, but I’m going to stay with it as long as I can because I love the people,” said Zuck, who averages 143 in the Monday league and 152 on Thursdays.
The people love Zuck, too. Although the Waterford resident didn’t bowl Thursday, he showed up for an ice cream social. When he arrived, nearly everyone showered him with pleasantries, including one that especially made Zuck smile: “Good morning, young man.”
Zuck will turn 105 in less than a month. He said he’s currently taking six medications, including multiple ones for his heart. He had his first heart attack in 1972 and said he’s had four others. Zuck has struggled to bowl last few weeks because one of the heart medications makes him dizzy. That issue has since subsided, for the most part.
Zuck also is hearing-impaired and has back and leg problems. He said he can often only bowl one or two games at a time because walking with his 14-pound ball is a chore. He bowled with a 16-pound ball about 10 years ago and is considering going down in weight again.
Regardless of the pain, his bowling technique remains intact. He takes a four-step approach and still puts some hook on the ball.
“It’s a little slow but not bad,” said league member Ken Meredith, Bettie’s husband. “I don’t see much difference now from the time he was 100.”
‘Party guy’
Zuck moved to Michigan from Missouri in 1926. He grew tired of building levees for farms, so he took a job at the Fisher Body Company in Pontiac, working for 45 cents an hour.
He opened Zuck Machine Shop in 1957, a car repair shop he sold in 1997.
Zuck never had any kids, but his late wife Estelle had two sons and a daughter. He met Estelle on a blind date in the early 1950s. She died in 1997 at age 90.
His stepdaughter and one of her daughters — whom he calls his granddaughter — live in Warren, so he sees them from time to time.
His granddaughter Deborah Owens throws him a birthday party every year. Century Bowl and his assisted living home also celebrate the occasion.
“I’m a party guy,” Zuck said.
Compared to his past, when he’d drive thousands of miles to see friends, Zuck said he doesn’t do much these days, although he still drives. To stay active, he does standing exercises — kicking his legs and swinging his arms — especially the right arm.
“As long as I can move my arm, I’m going to bowl,” Zuck said.
”Til I drop dead’
In addition to bowling, Zuck said he reads and roots for the Tigers. On Thursday, he wore a Pistons hat with bowling pins on the brim, but he has never been to one of their games. Baseball always was his sport, and he said he’s frustrated with the Tigers’ season.
“I feel like going over there and booting ‘em for not playing better,” he said.
Zuck first bowled when a friend pushed him to join a league in 1949. He wasn’t very good.
He’s bowled at Century since it opened in 1981. In that time he’s seen a lot of things in the bowling alley, including an incident four years ago when his friend died in the building.
Since then, the alley has added a defibrillator, which Zuck and the other seniors helped purchase.
But for Zuck, a similar fate might not be such a sad ending. He says he intends to bowl ” ’til I drop dead.”
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100827/SPORTS07/8270358/104-year-old-bowler-is-on-a-roll#ixzz0xvKctwY0
Seniors Enjoying Wii Bowling Leagues and Tournaments
The popularity of the Nintendo Wii has been increasing this year among seniors, as they look for new, low impact, ways that they can get exercise while living at a nursing home or assisted living facility. One game in particular is a hit with seniors, and surprisingly it is the free Wii Sports game that comes with the system. Specifically seniors are very into playing Wii bowling, as it was a common activity which many would participate in earlier in their life. However as many seniors age, it becomes harder for them to commute to a lane and pick up the heavy balls so that they can bowl with friends. Now, thanks to the Nintendo Wii, seniors at nursing homes and other facilities have a way to stay on top of their bowling skills, with very little chance of getting injured. In fact, Wii bowling is becoming so popular that seniors are actually participating in leagues and tournaments, so they can see whose bowling skills shine above the rest.
In North Carolina, Liberty HomeCare & Hospice Services created a nine-team Wii bowling league to give seniors a fun way to enjoy one of their new past times. The first match took place in late July between the Strikers and Autumn Sports, where the Strikers came out on top. More Wii bowling matches are planned for the senior league, and the games are expected to last through September. Similar events are also taking place in southern Florida, where seniors at Southwest Focal Point Senior Center had a Wii bowling tournament last month. There were twelve senior bowlers who broke into teams, and battled it out with the virtual bowling game. Not only do these games promote movement and exercise for the seniors, but they’re also a great way for seniors to socialize and interact with each other in a competitive way. Hopefully more senior facilities will catch onto the Wii bowling craze, and make it an option for their residents.
Written on August 16, 2010 at 1:45 pm by Ellen at:
http://www.guidetonursinghomes.com/nursing-home-news/1036-seniors-enjoying-wii-bowling-leagues-and-tournaments.html
Taylor Swift joins bowling hall of fame
It’s kept us up nights, wondering how and why the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame could possibly be shunning Taylor Swift for this long. Young Swift bowls regularly, and she possesses all sorts of fame. And yet for years, she’s been left sans-Bowling Hall induction. Criminal.
But wait: The Associated Press reports that the IBMHOF has finally seen the light, naming Swift for celebrity induction in 2010. Hooray! (Also, voting was open to fans, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that if something’s fan-voted, Taylor Swift will almost certainly win it.)
More about the bowling honor from the AP:
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Bowling fans have picked country star Taylor Swift as their 2010 choice for celebrity induction into the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame.
Swift barely beat pop star Justin Bieber to secure her lane in bowling history. They were among nine celebrities the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America nominated for their public support of the sport.
Swift has been spotted and photographed bowling with friends.
The association, in making the announcement Wednesday, says this is the first year that the celebrity induction process has been opened to fans. Nearly 1.3 million votes were cast online.
The museum, which moved from St. Louis last year, is based in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Arlington. Swift’s photo and plaque will be displayed at the site later this summer.
Published by tunein on August 11, 2010 in News at http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/08/11/taylor-swift-joins-bowling-hall-of-fame/
Women’s Open can be a boon to bowling
The big bowling news of the summer has been the announcement that the United States Women’s Open of 2011 will be conducted at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
It will be staged at the end of June in conjunction with Bowl Expo. The annual gathering of bowling aficionados is the center of various meetings, elections and award presentations for the sponsoring Bowling Proprietors Association of America.
Annually, Bowl Expo draws up to 10,000 attendees from the bowling industry and nearly 1,000 exhibitors who sell the latest in bowling, from scoring pencils to automatic scorers to multimillion-dollar bowling center installations.
The U.S. Open disclosure was a surprising but welcome development, because the United States Bowling Congress, the previous tournament sponsor, had decided it would not lend its name in 2011. Now, Ebonite International has stepped up to fill the sponsorship gap.
Women’s pro bowling and competitions for the higher average female shooters in the world have been tossed, turned and shoved under the nearest bus on many occasions since the women’s national pro tour was disbanded in 2003 because of financial problems. The women’s tour had been around since 1960, and top-notch women’s tournaments rank with the largest numbers in sports participation.
No details for the 2011 tournament have been revealed, except that it will be open to all youth and female sanctioned bowlers. Assuming no plans have been set, the powers that be have plenty of time to study the history of the tournament and its years of success.
The women’s and men’s U.S. Opens achieved their greatest success when competitive spots in the tournament were earned on the basis of local eliminations conducted by bowling proprietor groups or interested bowling centers that set up the events. Bowlers paid a modest entry fee on the local level and, if they qualified, got to move to the national with all expenses, entry fees, travel, lodging and incidentals paid for by the money generated at the local tournaments.
The Open deserves a lifetime spot on bowling’s national schedule. It can be done with the cooperation of proprietors and the field can be assured as one of the best with invited titlists and successful qualifiers at one of the most prestigious venues in the world.
The tournament should be one of bowling’s priorities, and the work to guarantee success should be well underway.
BRIEFS: Tom Smith, 53, of Wilmington, Del., averaged 242 for his nine games, highlighted by a 238-209 triumph over Rich Pizzutti of Mahwah, to win the Senior Challenge tourney at Lodi Lanes and the $1,000 first prize. Pizzutti, a super senior at 72, earned $550 for second. Next stop for the 50-plus gang is Sunday at Holiday Lanes in Oakland.
The International Bowling Hall of Fame received two big boosts recently. A donated custom motorcycle brought an auction price of $75,000 and the estate of the late John Powell Jr., bowler/proprietor, announced a $100,000 grant.
Bowling Fundraiser at Marvel Lanes In East Lansing, MI Raises Funds For Mission For Mercy
Posted by bowldetroit in Blog Post on June 6, 2010
By Meagan Choi (Last updated: 05/31/10 10:18pm)
Since she was a child, English senior Liza Polaskey has been interested in helping others. Polaskey took a Swahili course as a freshman at MSU and has since aspired to travel to Africa, and eventually join the Peace Corps after she graduates.
“I’ve had a fascination with volunteering for a long, long time,” Polaskey said.
Polaskey was one of the team and community members who participated in a bowling fundraiser Saturday at Marvel Lanes, 2120 E. M-78 Highway in East Lansing. An estimated $400 was raised for the mission trip, entitled Mission for Mercy, sponsored by Healthcare Ministries.
Mission for Mercy trip members will travel August 20-31 to the Republic of Cameroon, Africa to help provide health care for impoverished residents, said Art Hasbrook, the event organizer and team member.
“A majority of the funds go straight to the mission,” Hasbrook said.
Along with two hours of bowling and pizza, the auction had sandals and framed photographs from previous trips to Cameroon along with other donated items.
The trip will provide health care clinics for more than 4,000 people, team leader Simon Kue said.
Kue originally is from Cameroon and said his church, First Assembly of God, which is sponsoring the trip, has taken the trip for the past four years, since the church has missionaries who are based in Cameroon.
“The main reason is we have a partnership with our home missionaries,” he said. “It’s much easier for us to connect to the country.”
Kue, who is a pharmacist, said the team of 12 will be treating patients diagnosed with ailments such as malaria, ulcer problems and diabetes. The money raised will be used to buy medical supplies, including painkillers, vitamins, bandages and glasses, he said.
“There’s no limit — as much as we can (raise),” Kue said.
When Polaskey’s mother, Judy Polaskey, who works at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, received an e-mail from Kue asking for interested health care workers, she forgot about it until her daughter began looking for a summer volunteer opportunity. Judy Polaskey had no intention of going herself, but after watching a video at Kue’s home of the trip overview, she said she felt compelled to go.
“It just really spoke to my heart,” Judy Polaskey said. “How can I not go?”
Although most of the team members are medical practitioners, Liza Polaskey said she has been trained to run eye care clinics and hand out glasses.
“I’m really excited but really, really anxious and nervous,” she said.
Kue said that the ultimate goal is showing love and compassion while providing physical aid for thousands of impoverished people.
“The demand and need is more than we can offer,” he said.
The bowling event is one of three fundraising events planned for the summer and the team is always looking for donations, Kue said.
“Our goal is to be able to bring comfort and help the needy,” he said. “In order to do that, we need to raise funds.”
Originally Published: 05/31/10 10:12pm
International Bowling Campus Grand Opening is all about the sport and industry
By Mark Miller
USBC Communications
Under a clear blue sky and in front of an overflow audience, the International Bowling Campus officially became a reality Monday in Arlington, Texas.
Grand Opening attendees, many of whom arrived in red Arlington tourist trolleys,
listened to speakers from national and local elected officials to members of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau to national bowling leaders. They also watched a special time capsule be buried, took part in two ribbon cuttings and a ceremonial first ball roll.
“This is one exciting day in Arlington,” said Arlington Convention and Visitor’s Bureau President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Burgess. “It means so much to us in so many ways.
“The eyes of the world have been on us for awhile and you just added to that. We are the home of America’s pastime (Texas Rangers baseball), the home of America’s Team (the Dallas Cowboys) and now the home to the largest participatory sport in America.”
The Grand Opening capped a more than two-year vision to bring most of bowling’s
major organizations in one place. Between the International Training and Research Center to the south to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame to the north, the campus is the corporate home of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, United States Bowling Congress, Strike Ten Entertainment, The Bowling Foundation, International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association, Bowling and Billiards Association, Bowling Writers Association of America and Bowling News Network.
The 100,000-square-foot complex is located at 621 Six Flags Drive, across the street from Six Flags Over Texas and near Cowboys Stadium and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
“This may be the most important day in bowling history and that says a lot in the 5,000-year history in bowling,” said BPAA Executive Director Steve Johnson. “This facility is unparalleled in the sports and entertainment world. This is not about any one leader or any one organization. It’s about what’s best for the industry of bowling.”
“This represents more than the bowling organizations coming together. This represents the future of this industry,” said USBC Executive Director Stu Upson. “There will be some hard work ahead but I guarantee it will be a great ride.”
“The building of the Hall is a perfect example of what can be accomplished when you get everyone together to accomplish a mission,” said IBM/HF Executive Director Bill Supper.
Following the 50-minute ceremonies, the Campus was open for tours of the ITRC and the IBM/HF. After a special reception for IBM/HF contributors, the national Bowl for the Cure kickoff for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure was held at the ITRC.
People touring the ITRC saw firsthand how bowling balls, pins, lanes and lane dressing will be tested plus learned the latest about BPAA and USBC coaching programs. Those visiting the IBM/HF saw the new combination of the sport from both the historical and contemporary views. All seemed impressed with what they saw.
In summing up what the opening of the Campus means, Johnson read directly from an article by writer Rick Press in Monday’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
“Move over, Cowboys. Take a seat in the dugout, Rangers. And guess what, Six Flags? You don’t have the only Titan in Arlington anymore. There’s a new kingpin in town. And its name is bowling.”
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