Everything about bowling is becoming increasingly popular due to its exposure in movies, television sitcoms, and new age music. That and the fact that it is a sport that can be played by most anyone who can pick up or push a six to sixteen-pound plastic ball.

Bowling is an equal opportunity sport; there is no discrimination of race, age, sex or social background. Five-year-olds and octogenarians play alongside business CEOs and teenagers sporting the latest in gothic fashions.

The Game, The Sport

The object of the game is to get a perfect score of 300 by rolling your ball down the lane and bowling over as many of the ten pins as you can for each of ten frames.

Games of 300 are hard to accomplish; even professional bowlers achieve few perfect games in their careers. A game of 200 is considered par.

The game ends after you bowl ten frames, which could take as little as eleven turns or as many as twenty. The better you become, the fewer turns you need to take.

It can be a social game or an individual game. It can be league supported or personally challenging. The game can be professionally sponsored or simply a family get-together. No matter what the circumstances, bowling can be fun!

Many high schools and colleges have bowling teams and individual bowling enthusiasts travel state to state in national tournaments. And for those of you who do not realize the levels bowling has gotten to, the adults and juniors of Team USA travel country to country and do very well I might add.