The Professional Bowlers Association hands its Playoffs winner a real WWE championship belt. Not a prop. The two executives who built the WWE’s entertainment… Read more: The PBA Has Turned Bowling Into The WWE (seriously)

The Professional Bowlers Association put Ernie Schlegel on ABC in a sequined jumpsuit and called him a gimmick. What that word buried: the all-night… Read more: The PBA Called Him a Gimmick to Hide What He Was

The PBA Hall of Fame has a written standard: ten tour titles, or five with two majors. Guppy Troup had eight and zero. The… Read more: The PBA Hall of Fame Has 2 Standards. Only 1 Is Written

Dell Ballard Jr. and David Ozio each won four PBA titles in 1991, but the Player of the Year vote was never as close as the count made it look — and no one checked the record.

In July 1985, Sports Illustrated published Pete Weber’s on-record cocaine confession during PBA tour competition. The organization’s commissioner never issued a single word in response.

Apollo Global Management owns bowling. In May 2026, eleven bowlers sued to break it apart — the first real test of whether a private… Read more: Apollo Bought Bowling. Now 11 Bowlers Want It Back.