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Page 12 | Thursday, July 8, 2010 | THE BOWLING NEWS
I’m going to assume I am
out here on my own with this
opinion, but I think Lebron
James is everything that’s
wrong with free agency in
sports.
Just like most people, I enjoy
thinking about the possibility
of a top-tier player coming
to my favorite team, but if this
Lebron James debacle is the
result, then count me out.
Financial advisors always
say not to put all your eggs in
one basket, but that’s exactly
what some NBA teams are doing
by trying to create enough
salary cap space to go after
Lebron.
James, by no fault of his
own, seems to be holding the
entire NBA hostage. Currently
it looks like there are three
or four teams fighting to get
James, and the stakes are
certainly high, but only one of
these teams is going to get him.
The teams that don’t win
the Lebron sweepstakes are going
to stink for years to come.
The New Jersey Nets and
the New York Knicks have
been planning and tweaking
the roster for two years now
preparing to make a run at
Lebron.
The problem is that neither
one of them will probably get
him. What does that mean for
these two franchises? Is it fair
to the fans or the city to leave
so much up to chance?
The NBA is lucky that
the Los Angeles Lakers and
the Boston Celtics are so
good right now, because any
league is tough to keep going
when the city of New York is
uninterested.
I wish we could go back to
the days where guys stayed
with the same team for the
majority of their career. Karl
Malone, Michael Jordan, Larry
Bird, those types of players are
faces of franchises.
Lebron is a Cavalier and
should stay a Cavalier. He has
taken a poor franchise and
single handedly built them into
a power house.
All I have to say is one
thing to Lebron James, finish
what you started and stay in
Cleveland.
Don’t look now, but your
Texas Rangers are playing
some excellent baseball and
have found themselves with
a three and a half game lead
almost half way through the
season.
Although I am excited about
the potential for an October
playoff run, I’m hesitant to get
excited because we have seen
this scenario before. The Rangers
have a tendency to sink in
the second half, and with the
problems with ownership lurking
in the background, things
are too shaky to start thinking
about the playoffs.
Still, it should be a fun
second half of the season and
I’m actually going to attend a
game as soon as Pro Cuts sends
me my free tickets for spending
$20 or more.
I just read an article that the
new Cowboys Stadium is going
to host the 2011 Women’s U.S.
Open.
This is a huge event for
bowling and will be an awesome
place to display our sport.
I would like to see every
bowling fan in the Metroplex
come out and support this
event, as Cowboys Stadium
holds about 95,000 more people
than what a bowling center
will hold.
My odds-on favorite to win
the event is April Ellis. She
already has experience on the
Cowboy Stadium field after
running the 5k event there
with me a few months back.
She has already seen as much
playing time on the field as
COURTNEY WINS
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Ronnie Allen, high qualifier
Mini Williams, $80 each;
16-21. Brian Harston, Ricky
Brown, Anthony Sewell, Torris
Jackson, Kam Mostowfi, Ted
Garner, $75 each.
High Qualifier (no-tap)
Ronnie Allen, $500; Eddie
Rogers, $3; Ed Ross, Torris
Jackson, Onil Llagas.
High Pot Winners
Ed Ross, Steve Sherrell,
Linda Yarbrough, James
Mahoney, $30 each; Kam
Mostowfi, Jeremiah LaRoe,
Ed Williams, Lupe Reyna,
$20 each; Lew Lewis, Ronnie
Allen, Denfield Joseph, Torris
Jackson, Jerri Colbert, William
Dean, Onil Llagas, $10 each.
Bowler of the Year
Standings as of June 28
1. Ronnie Allen, 9478;
2. Ted Garner, 7744; 3. Bob
Kielich, 7535; 4. Lloyd Payne,
6984; 5. Eddie Rogers, 6602; 6.
Frankie Garza, 6531; 7. Austin
Hill, 6510; 8. Jeremiah LaRoe,
6080; 9. Randy Price, 5878; 10.
Vinny Meneades, 5861.
The weekend handicap
tournament showed 95 entries
with a total payout of $5,238.
The next NABI tournament will
be the 4th of July Open July
9-11 at AMF Showplace Euless.
John Kitna. Good work to the
BPAA for stepping up and getting
a place to hold this great
tournament.
It’s been a while, but with a
few weeks off from bowling I
can finally bring back what is
in Daceman’s DVD player.
For my one year anniversary,
I went all out and rented
(clear my throat) Valentine’s
Day from Red Box.
There were so many stars
in this movie it was hard to
believe. However, it felt like
they spent more time filling
cameo roles then they did
writing the movie.
Although I liked the format
of the movie, which was
several story lines that intertwined,
the delivery was not
so good. Just when you started
to get into the story it would
switch gears and take you
down another path that wasn’t
as interesting.
Taylor Swift makes an
appearance in the movie, but
she was just as irritating in the
movie as she is in her acceptance
speeches in real life.
Overall, I give the movie
two stars, but make sure you
have a woman with you when
you go get it. You don’t want
all the people standing behind
you at Red Box thinking how
pathetic you are for renting it
on your own.
At AMF DeSoto
Pride wraps up 779,
Miller mints 623
Bam Pride won the battle for
top billing for the week at AMF
DeSoto with power-packed 278-
268-233 = 779 numbers in Men’s
Trio action.
Janet Miller’s lofty 191-237-195
= 623 Pushovers outing led the
ladies’ race.
OTHER HIGH SCORES
Aric Alcaraz 266-766, Russell
Corwin 266-743, Henry Guzman
222-598, Wendy Kent 239-604, Bam
Pride 246-726, Veronica Avery 191-522,
Steven Thomas 217-617, Lori Knox
At Lake Country
Lanes
Dunn decks
665 series
MARBLE FALLS — Dustin
Dunn booked a banner 197-222-
246 = 665 Summer Twisters series
to head the honor roll for the
week at Lake Country Lanes.
BWAA past president
Dick Evans dies at age 78
DAYTONA BEACH, FL
— Dick Evans, past president
and life member of the Bowling
Writers Association of America,
died July 4 at the age of 78.
Evans had the distinction
of being the first daily newspaper
reporter inducted into
the PBA Hall of Fame (1986)
and the American Bowling
Congress’ Hall of Fame (1992).
Among his many awards,
Evans received the Billiards’
and Bowling Industry Service
award in 1986. He was also
awarded the Bowling Proprietors’
Association of America
V.A. “Chief” Wapensky award
in 2007, which recognizes
an individual who has made
a major contribution to the
advancement of the bowling
industry.
He was named the official
bowling writer for the Knight-
Ridder News Wire in the early
1980s and in 1972 was sent to
St. Louis to receive the bowling
industry’s media award on
behalf of the Knight-Ridder
chain at the Salute Dinner. His
weekly bowling stories were
sent out over the Knight-Ridder
news wire and went to 144
daily newspapers with a daily
circulation of over 10 million.
At time of death, Evans
was the leading award winner
in the Bowling Magazine
Writing Contest for stories that
appeared in both The Miami
Herald and Daytona Beach
News-Journal. He was the top
winner in the Professional
Dick Evans
Bowlers’ Association’s writing
contest, which was discontinued
in 2001. Evans was named
the top tennis writer in Florida
in 2002 and at the USA Tennis
Florida Convention in Daytona
Beach.
Evans, born on September
20, 1931, began his 60-year
journalism career at the age
of 12, delivering the Miami
News. The youngest of three
Evans brothers to write for The
Miami Herald, at age 14 he was
hired to take greyhound racing
results and write headlines for
short stories. At age 17, he officially
joined the Miami Herald
staff when he was hired as a
copy-boy. At age 20, he was
added to the Miami Herald’s
sports department staff.
For the Miami Herald, Evans
wrote about all high school
sports, college football, boxing,
161-363, Bettye Haynes 16-467.
Frank Bolton 239-658, Les Lewis
235-631, Jack Soria 252-657, Arlette
Washington 193-512, Lindsley Davis
243-663, Cynthia Fagan 175-495,
Michael Craig 258-661, Paulette
Washington 183-449, Anthony Johns
246-651.
SENIORS
Roger Strand 191-552, Billie Bradley
186-482, Bill Anderson 182-510, Myrtis
Anthony 148-433, Ed Neroes 205-514,
Jeanne Ham 210-499, Paul Allee 180-
509, Bobbie Reed 190-482.
Janice Naumann, from the
Summer Lady Bluebonnet group,
paced the gals with a fine 191-
168-195 = 554 set.
OTHER SCORES
Tobe Cozby 216-575, Ryan Perry
128, Lacinda Jelskey 335, Tami M. 177-
465, Don Wilder 245, Linda Birkhead
199-546, Curtis Beal 653, Devon Smart
225, Trisha Bode (4 games) 161-599,
Wayne Wright (4 games) 793.
SENIORS
Ross Walker 221-585, Jan Grape 160,
Bessie Weinand 438.
bowling, golf, tennis, water
skiing, wrestling, horse/dog/
harness races, jai-alai and also
spent 14 months serving as
interim religious editor.
He once organized and ran
a Dade County High school
baseball tournament that
featured North Miami High’s
Steve Carlton (a Hall of Famer)
and Fred Norman, a future
star with the Chicago Cubs, in
a taut pitchers duel at Miami
Stadium before 3,000 spectators.
During the Baltimore
Orioles spring training season
in Miami he organized a
practice session with the O’s
for all of Dade County’s high
school baseball prospects.
His most successful
promotion came when he
teamed with Joe Tanenbaum
of Gulfstream Race Track,
drawing 56,000 entries from
South Floridians to pick the
best horse ever to run at
Gulfstream. But his forte was
bowling, a sport that he started
covering for The Miami Herald
in 1957.
Evans retired from The
Miami Herald Dec. 31, 1989.
However, the native Miamian
continued to cover the bowling
beat for The Herald until
he decided to end his Miami
Herald career 20 years later.
Two of his brothers, the late
Luther Evans and Lee Evans,
founder of the Tournament of
the Americas, also wrote sports
stories for The Miami Herald.
Thus stories under the byline
of an Evans brother appeared
in The Miami Herald from 1937
until 2009 except for two years
during World War II (1943-44).
Evans was hired by the Pro-
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