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Was the victim of Liz Johnson in the finals of the 2005 East Region Kingpin Lanes tournament, the first PBA tournament ever won by a female bowler. Lost with an 8-pin count to Jack Jurek's strike in a sudden death rolloff after tying the game at 218 in the 2009 Shark Championship, giving Jurek his first title in 14 years.
For the first time in Super High Roller Bowl history, a Pot-Limit Omaha event was announced to take place from October 16-18, 2023. [18] The buy-in of $100,000 was the biggest Pot-Limit Omaha tournament buy-in in the world at the time, and it attracted a 38-entrant field and created a prize pool of $3,800,000 that paid the final seven players.
The PBA kicked off its 50th season with a major tournament: the PBA World Championship was moved to the front of the PBA schedule for the first time in history. The tournament was contested October 19–25, 2008 at Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kansas , with the live televised finals airing Sunday, October 26 on ESPN.
From 1978 to 1997, he hosted a bowling Tip Of The Week, usually after the second televised match. He and Schenkel were still working together when ABC ceased production of the series in June 1997. After leaving ABC, Burton moved to ESPN and spent one year in 1998 providing analysis for select PBA broadcasts.
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Once again, Greg McDermott has knocked off the top-ranked team in the country. Creighton rolled over No. 1 Kansas 76-63 on Wednesday night at the CHI Center in Omaha in the Big 12-Big East Battle.
Starting in October 2004, the PBA adopted an all-exempt national tour format. In this format, only 64 bowlers competed in most weekly events. Bowlers earned exemptions by winning a tournament during the previous season, winning one of the four major tournaments (thus gaining a multi-year exemption), placing among the top finishers in points, leading a region on the PBA Regional Tour (2005 ...