PBA exempt player
Dan MacLelland (center), a native Canadian who lives in Saginaw, Mich., won The International Mini Sunday morning, Feb. 5, at Sunset Station's Strike Zone Bowling Center in Las Vegas, Nev., and received the $30,000 first-place check. In the one-game championship match, the Canadian Bowler of the Year 2011 defeated Bronze Division champion
Darrin Remiticado of Stockton, Calif.,, and Silver Division champion
Willie Wells of Herriman, Utah, 203-187-182.Â
Cherie Tan (l.) of Singapore and PBA champions Michael Fagan (r.) and Sean Rash took the early lead in the International Bowling Championship 2012 supported by DHC after the first of the three three-game qualifying blocks at Hakata Star Lanes in Hakata, Japan. Tan topped all 168 players with 715 total and an average of 238.33, while PBA champions Fagan and Rash, United States, were tied for first place in the men's division at 710 (236.67). All players return on Friday for another six qualifying games. 
The field is set for the main event of the International Bowling Championship 2012 supported by DHC which will be held from Feb. 9-11 at Hakata Star Lanes, a 60 wooden-lane center on two floors, in Hakata, Japan. Yoshihiro Haji and Mayumi Yoshida of the Japan
Professional Bowlers Association led the third and final local
pre-qualifying tournament while Lee Ik-Kyu of Korea and Jacqueline Sijore of Malaysia topped the International Trials:
Tish Johnson of Colorado Springs, CO won the first National Women's Bowling Alliance (WBA) event hosted by the Amateur Bowlers Tour (ABT) Winter Nationals at South Point Lanes in Las Vegas by topping 90 entries of the best women bowlers in the U.S. for a $10,000 payday. Johnson, a 25-time PWBA champion and two-time Player of the Year, averaged 247 in the semi-finals and match play finals with a record of 3-1 for the title.
Delegates will vote on 13 proposals involving changes to USBC bylaws, league rules and tournament rules at the USBC Annual Meeting on April 27 in Arlington. The amendments include a series of changes to USBC bylaws called the Financial Freedom and Flexibility Proposals. The Financial Freedom and Flexibility Proposals will allow associations at all levels to better manage their financial future by removing dues cap restrictions from USBC bylaws.
The 69th U.S. Open, one of professional bowling's most demanding tournaments, will return to Brunswick Zone-Carolier in North Brunswick, N.J., in 2012 for a record seventh time. Defending champion Norm Duke (pictured right) of Clermont, Fla., will be on hand to try to win his eighth career major title, his third U.S. Open crown and the $60,000 first prize. 
Kegel Training Center has announced that Del Warren, the current Vice President of the training center, will be the new Webber International men's head coach effective immediately. Warren is a USBC Gold level coach and has been the head of the Webber bowling program since its inception in 2008. Last season, the men finished as a finalist at the USBC Intercollegiate
Team Championships and are currently ranked 7th in the power rankings. 
For the fourth consecutive year it's the people who will have the power to choose the next inductee into the Celebrity Bowling Hall of Fame with the launch of an American Idol-style competition that will be sheer "Madness." The excitement and anticipation will heighten with a new basketball tournament-inspired bracket that will pit some of the most popular celebrities against each other in head-to-head voting competition from March 12 - April 10, 2012
Sean Rash (pictured) of Montgomery, Ill., was the lone U.S. professional in the finals of the Chameleon Open, which will air Sunday, Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN. The Chameleaon Open was the second of four PBA "animal pattern" championships conducted during the PBA World Series of Bowling Nov. 6-19, 2011 at South Point Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Rash meets two-handed rivals Jason Belmonte of Australia and Osku Palermaa of Finland and Venezuelan Ildemaro Ruiz.
DV8 Bowling has added its first female bowler, Team USA member Shannon "Shan-O-Mac" O'Keefe, to its pro staff. The 2007 World Champion in Singles, who lives in Arlington, Texas, has been a member of Team USA for eight consecutive years. In addition O'Keefe (pictured) brought home the gold medals in the Trio's and Team event at the 2011 Women's World Championships in Hong Kong. O'Keefe also finished first in the 2009 PBA Women's Series Tour Trials and has 22 perfect games.
Liz Johnson, Chris Barnes and Walter Ray Williams Jr. advanced to the stepladder finals of the WTBA International Open, which will be held in suburban Paris, France in March. Each finalist earned an expenses-paid trips to the stepladder finals, which will be held in conjunction with the Brunswick Euro Challenge, the seventh stop of the 2012 World Bowling Tour, which takes place at Plaza Saint Maximin from March 16-25. Bowlingdigital will cover the BEC live from Plaza Bowl. 
The World Bowling Tour is heading into its second season featuring 14 events in 10 countries - five in the United States and one each in Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, Kuwait and Thailand. The top 50 men and the top 50 women earn points based on how they finish in each event. The current points system is based on a continuous two-year cycle (2011-12). The top 3 men and top 3 women in the WBT rankings will qualify for the World Bowling Tour finals at the end of 2012.
National Basketball Association All-Star point guard Chris Paul and his new Los Angeles Clippers teammate, power forward Blake Griffin, are rapidly becoming the most dynamic duo in the NBA. But on the bowling lanes in Sunday's ESPN telecast of the Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational
presented by Sheets Brand from Lucky Strike LA Live, Paul gave Griffin
an unwanted "assist" that helped Griffin's team win the trios event and
end Paul's two-year hold on the trophy. 
Former PBA exempt player D.J. Archer (l.) of Pt Arthur, Texas averaged over 240 in the qualifying of the USBC Masters, WTBA International Open and The International Mini en route to win $10,000 first prize in All Events with 4813 20-game total. Two-time PBA champion Mike Machuga (r.) of Erie, Pa., matched Archer's earnings when hit the jackpot at one of the Keno machines in Strike Zone Bowling Center.
The Professional Bowlers Association has launched a new membership drive to encourage new members to experience PBA competition, former members to return to the fold, invite young bowlers to test their skills at the PBA level at an affordable price, and attract bowlers from around the world to enjoy the benefits of PBA membership as competitors in the new PBA-WTBA World Bowling Tour program. The new membership campaign introduces a new low-cost PBA24 membership and a new PBA International membership.
A total of 56 players advanced to the divisional finals of the 2012 International Mini starting at 8 a.m. Pacific on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5. Alex Aguiar of N. Dartmouth, Mass. set the tone in Saturday's qualifying in the Gold Division with 993 four game total. Julio Blancas of Mexico City, Mexico rolled the highest series of the day in the Silver Division (1000) and Courtney Harris of New York City totaled 871 including handicap to lead the Bronze Division. . 
PBA Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli (l.) of Venezuela, Scott Newell (r.) of Deland, Fla. and Adam Barta of Girard, Ohio, saved their best for the 19th and last qualifying squad to advance to the finals on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5, starting at Noon Pacific. Three-time PBA champion Eugene McCune of Munster, Ind., led the field of 132 players - 123 men and nine women - with 1505 total and an average of 250.83. The cut in the Desperado Squad was 257. 
Five PNA champions including three PBA Player of the Year led the penultimate qualifying squad of the WTBA International Open Saturday morning to position themselves in the top 43, who will advance to the finals on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5, starting at Noon Pacific. Wes Malott (pictured) of Pflugerville, Texas, who owns seven PBA Tour titles including three in the 2008-09 season on his way to PBA Player of the Year honors, led the 26 players of Squad 18 with 1412 six-game total and an average of 235.33.