Wes Malott's arm drops as he approaches the foul line, his hand moving in a perfect pendular motion before releasing his bowling ball. The ball glides in a long, graceful arc before toppling all ten ...

Flotation is, well, a “simple” question of physics (an idea that’s flummoxed scores of physics students for centuries). Bowling balls seem heavy, and they are compared to other sports balls, which may ...

Something mysterious awaits Kevin Mills at the far end of the bowling lane, down there in the shadows. It doesn’t matter that his fingers find just the right grip on the ball. Or that he takes three ...

My bowling roots run deep. I had the same bowling-alley birthday party we all had at age 8. But unlike you, I just … kept bowling. I joined a league in the fourth grade and was on my varsity bowling ...

More than 45 million people in the US are fans of bowling, with national competitions awarding millions of dollars. Bowlers usually rely on instinct and experience, earned through lots and lots of ...

The sweet clang of scattering pins echoed through Western Bowl, a cavernous 68-lane bowling alley on the edge of Cincinnati. It was day one of the 1993 Super Hoinke, a Thanksgiving weekend tournament ...

There's a lot more to ten-pin bowling than meets the eye. What to most people is something you do while half-cut during a boozy night-out or take your kids to for a birthday hides a chilling secret: ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss GQ story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-April ...

In the bowling world, Glenn Allison is an all-time great. — -- A 24-year-old Texas man bowled a 900 in Houston last week as an 86-year-old bowling legend fights for official recognition of ...