Pro Bowling Glance

[The KingPin]

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Mike Jakubowski | PR/Media Relations

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Pro Bowling Glance



LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR

Event: USBC Masters

When: Tuesday-Sunday

Where: Cashman Center (60 lanes) in Las Vegas, Nev.

Purse: $350,000, winner’s share: $60,000

Television: ESPN (Live Sunday 1 p.m. ET)

Online: Xtra Frame on pba.com (Live Friday, Round of 8, 8 p.m. ET)

Last Season: Sean Rash won the 2007 USBC Masters at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wis. to win his first Major Title and 4th Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour Title.

Last Week: Norm Duke pocketed $35,000 in winning the 2009 Denny’s Dick Weber Open. Duke’s 32nd Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour victory moved him into a tie for fifth place with Parker Bohn III on the all-time Tour Titles list.



PBA WOMEN’S SERIES

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 Association (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.