Professional Bowlers Association

With bigger purses and fresh new faces, professional bowling is quietly making a big comeback

Pummeled by 37-year-old journeyman Larry Donald (4232), former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield, 42. Fighting on the undercard last Saturday at Madison Square Garden--where his pro career began 20 years...

It is now possible in sports to hold a meaningful conversation entirely in acronyms or initials, as when Shaquille O'Neal, asked which teams ought to be in the BCS title game, answered, "LSU-USC."

It's a Tuesday night at the Brunswick Zone Carolier Lanes in North Brunswick, N.J., and Danny Wiseman is most definitely in the hizzz-ouse. "He's exotic, he's different, he's off the wall!" ESPN bowling announcer Jim...

STEVE MILLERPresident of the Professional Bowlers Association, assessing the state of his sport: "We're only a couple of breaths from being a carcass. We're just above roadkill."