Archive for ‘Stories’

  • How the F-Bomb Introduced me to Bowling
    My initial introduction to bowling involved one of the many nights that my father had brought my mother and I along to league night.  At the time, I really had no interest in the game so as soon as we walked into the alley, I bee-lined it right to the video games.  I had a reputation to uphold, after all, as I was obsessed with the flashing and droning MIDI based ‘music’...
    by at January 10th, 2011 at 09:01 am
  • Bowling Ball of Choice: The “Dick” Ball
    UPDATE: MY father read over this article and I’m proud to boast that the story was pretty much dead on except that I was actually mad at him for a number of weeks rather than days.  Not a bad memory, huh?? Never fear…my goal of kingpin-bowling.com, much like my time on the lanes, is not to land in the gutter.  Although the title of this story may seem a...
    by at August 18th, 2010 at 09:08 pm
  • Bringing Down the House
    Ever wish you could take back one of those nights of bowling and just forget it ever happened?  Whether you rolled an embarrassingly low score or maybe you had a few too many to drink and talked too much trash to the guy on the next lane, we all have those stories that just make us want to cringe when it’s rehashed in any way. My buddy (Bill) and I were hitting...
    by at August 18th, 2010 at 03:08 pm