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Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
As he said before starting up the show and proved in the middle of it, John Knight of New Hartford, New York does not have much to say about his own bowling.
His USBC member stats show a high average of 192. They don’t show a record of him bowling in a sanctioned league in several years .
But you don’t have to throw 'em really well to drill 'em really well.
Ten years ago, Knight founded John Knight’s Bowlers' Shoppe inside King Pin Lanes in Rome, NY. He has added a second location at Perry lanes in Johnstown since then.
Last year, he found out that he would be honored with the Friends of IBPSIA award at International Bowl Expo 2024 in Colorado.
IBPSIA is an organization that I partner with to produce hot topics, a series of short interviews with industry leaders for the organizations YouTube channel.
The award is where we start Knight's bowling story!
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Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Seriously, what would the Wisconsin Vintage Alleys Tour be without Yvonne Bennett?
Fortunately, nobody has to find out just yet. The retired Executive Director of the Bowling Centers Association of Wisconsin who created the tour will be leading it. BCAW has taken her on in a consultant role for the event, as well as another vintage alleys tour in Wisconsin later in 2025.
WI Vintage Alleys Tour: https://www.bowlwi.com/bcaw-events/wi...
Bennett, who lives in Milwaukee, held the Executive Director post at BCAW for eight years. Before that, she built a lasting reputation of great bowling in the Nation's Captial Area Bowling Association, which encompasses the Washington DC metro area. The association inducted her into its Hall of Fame six years ago.
She also worked for the Young American Bowling Alliance and held several other jobs outside of the bowling industry. She received a BCAW Award of Excellence in 2022 for her work increasing membership and starting up the Wisconsin Vintage Alleys Tour, of course!
In this episode, we discuss the centers featured in the April tour and looking back at Bennett's career in bowling.
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Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
After the PWBA made some changes that impacted the players earlier this year, BowlForward made some changes too.
BowlForward is an organization led by Chris Pulliam of Las Vegas. It will award cash to certain PWBA athletes that apply, meet certain criteria and are selected by a volunteer committee.
Chris recently joined the livestream to explain how BowlForward will look moving forward.
BowlForward online: bowlforward.org
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Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
It won't be a long road trip to Intercollegiate Sectionals for this coach and her relatively new women's program next month.
Melanie McDaniel of Joliet, IL and her Governors State University Jaguars learned they are headed to Addison, IL on Feb. 19, as their watch party was featured on the USBC's 2025 Sectionals Assignment Show. The school's bowling program is finishing up its first full season of competition.
When she's not coaching, McDaniel is an incredible competitor. She has persevered despite multiple injuries that kept her off the lanes for months and even years during separate stretches in her career. McDaniel reached the finals of the 2023 PWBA BowlTV Classic and finished 3rd, as well finishing 4th in the 2024 PWBA Pepsi Open.
Growing up in a family full of bowlers, it stands to reason that the sport is such a big part of McDaniel's life. We'll learn more about McDaniel's bowling story and how she's prepping her ladies for the college postseason!
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Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
The last time we caught up with Patrick Martinez, we were literally talking about South Point hot dogs.
Back then, and I say that in air quotes because it wasn’t even a year ago, Patrick may have been best known for his Patty Cam on BowlTV.
At the beginning of 2025 he announced that he was starting a video production company. The Cloud Media Productions Inc. took a lot of time and a lot of thought to get off the ground, pardon the pun.
Now that he is off the ground with it we decided to have a conversation and call it Cloud Level.
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Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
The 2025 PBA Tour has lots of talented stars and players looking to make their mark for the first time.
What it doesn't have is Joe Grondin.
The San Pedro, CA native who is now living near Lansing, MI announced at the end of last year that he was trading tour life for the working world...and mentioned some great personal things that have him excited for A New Path Forward!
You may remember Grondin from his televised finals appearance at the 2023 PBA Cheetah Championship in Wauwatosa. He defeated AJ Johnson, but lost to eventual champion EJ Tackett in the semifinal match.
The Wichita State grad did not have the success in 2024 he had hoped for, and missed the cut at the PBA Tour Trials in August.
So, what part does bowling play in Grondin's future? Listen to find out!
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Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
At the time this is distributed to your favorite podcast platform, Eau Claire area USBC adult members have a little more than a week to register for their association tournament.
And they should! There are incentives upon incentives to bowl this tournament in Eau Claire, WI, and you don’t have to bowl like a champion to walk away a winner.
Go to bit.ly/2025ecusbc (all lower case letters...it is case-sensitive) to find a registration form and all the rules.
As you listen to this episode, keep in mind, I am a volunteer member of the association.
In it, Association President Barb Hanson and Vice President Randy Schenk discuss all the new stuff coming up at this year’s tournament!
NOTES: -Tournament participants MUST be members of the Eau Claire Area USBC and are required to sign up in advance. Walk-in entries will not be accepted.-Andrew Fefer serves as a volunteer member of the Eau Claire Area USBC Board of Directors, and has since May 2024.
-Your all-events score is the seven-game total. Scores in games two and three of the Doubles/Singles event do not count twice.
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Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Sometimes things just come into our lives for whatever reason and have a big, honkin' impact.
For Brian Hirsch of Salem, WI that was bowling.
Nowadays, he’s passing on all his knowledge to his son, who is a regular at youth tournaments across Wisconsin.
It’s Masen and me…the bowling story of Brian Hirsch.
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Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
It goes without saying that EJ Tackett is leading Team MOTIV at the upcoming PBA Elite League: Battle of the Brands.
In a social media prank that was well executed, MOTIV guys Ronnie Russell and Brett Spangler claimed that Ronnie’s brother in law would be replacing EJ on the team.
EJ took that joke like a champ, and a discussion about the real Team MOTIV is where we started the episode Top of the Mountain.
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Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
I’m a big fan of finding and trying new social media platforms.
When I first heard about Bluesky several weeks ago, I didn’t see it as a substitute for any other platform or away to signal my political leaning. The former would probably fly in the face of what I’m trying to do with the marketing of Bowling With The Fef!, and the latter is something that almost always has nothing to do with Bowling With The Fef!
At that point there weren’t many bowling related accounts on Bluesky, but after about a day, I was glad to see an inbox message from Simon Kimber, the creator of the Tenpin Toolkit (tenpintoolkit.com) app.
That led to this episode of the show that we called Bowling’s Swiss Army Knife.
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