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PBA Bowling on ESPN Super Bowl Sunday





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LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR

Event: Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles Championship

When: Sunday

Where: National Bowling Stadium (78 lanes) in Reno, Nev.

Purse: $285,000, winner’s share: $50,000 ($25,000 each)

Television: ESPN (Sunday 2:00 p.m. ET)

Headline: New PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke and 2007 U.S. Women’s Open winner Liz Johnson are the No. 1 Qualifiers in the five-team stepladder format.

Last Week: Patrick Allen won the H&R Block Tournament of Champions for his second career Major title and 12th career Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title.



PBA WOMEN’S SERIES

Last Event: Wendy Macpherson won the Bayer Earl Anthony Medford Cl***ic in Medford, Ore. on Jan. 18.

Next Event: The six PBA Women’s Series Champions will meet in the PBA Women’s Series Showdown presented by the USBC on ESPN Sunday April 12 from 1-3 p.m. ET.





About the PBA

The Professional Bowlers ***ociation (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events and will award over $4.3 million in prize money during the 2008-09 Lumber Liquidators PBA National Tour. The organization has more than 4,000 members spanning 13 countries, and nearly one million viewers tune-in to watch the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour every Sunday on ESPN throughout the season. PBA sponsors include Bayer, Brunswick, CLR, Denny's, Etonic, Flomax, GEICO, Go RVing, H&R Block, Lumber Liquidators, Motel 6, Pepsi-Cola and the USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com. This season marks the 50th Anniversary of the PBA Tour.