NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING
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Howard Stern Staffer Bowls at ITRC
IF SCOTT SALEM, an engineer for the Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM satellite radio, learned anything during a two- day training session at the International Training and Research Center (ITRC) earlier this month, it was that competing at the highest level in the sport of bowling takes consistent accuracy. Salem visited the International Bowling
Campus and trained with Team USA assis- tant head coach Kim Terrell-Kearney and Team USA assistant coach Bryan O’Keefe in preparation for the PBA World Series of Bowling “I can’t believe how much I learned,
how much I didn’t know about bowling,” Salem, a USBC member who averaged 218 last season, said after his ITRC experience. “Once I absorb everything I will come away being so much better. It was a great experi- ence.” Salem, 57, received a special invitation from the PBA to participate in the World
Series of Bowling at South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas, where he missed his personal goal of making it in the top 200, finishing 217th. Salem’s appearance not only has pro-
vided talk-show host Howard Stern with material for the radio show, but Salem’s experience will be featured on Stern’s On Demand television channel, Howard TV. The biggest change for Salem is moving
from “house” lane conditions to bowling on the oil conditions used in professional competition. At the ITRC, he trained on PBA patterns and also the lane conditions used in Team USA Experience leagues. He called the conditions “humbling.” “It’s like nothing I have ever bowled on
before,” Salem said. “The major thing I got out of it was you have to be accurate - if you can’t be accurate, you can’t bowl. You have to be consistently accurate to have any chance. You have to have pinpoint control every time.”
Hall of Fame raises more than
$1.4 million The campaign to raise money from the bowl- ing industry for the new International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame ended Aug. 31 with more than $1.4 million donated overall. More than 80 donations of at least $5,000 were received including 16 at the $25,000 or above levels. “We want to thank every- one who donated money to our bowling industry capital campaign,” said IBM/HF Chairman Pat Ciniello. “Thanks to the generosity of so many people, companies and organizations, we had a successful grand opening in January and will contin- ue to have a bright future in Texas.”
Terry Named New Managing Director
STERN PLAYER: Click on the play button (above left) to watch special video coverage of Howard Stern staffer and USBC league bowler Scott Salem training at the International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Texas.
Kevin Terry has been named USBC Managing Director of Marketing and Membership. Terry brings extensive experi- ence in marketing and sales from top-level pro- fessional sports organiza- tions to USBC. Terry most recently was president of the Winston-Salem Dash, an affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Chicago White Sox and operated by Mandalay Baseball Properties. Prior to his work with the Dash, Terry held sales or marketing positions at the vice presi- dent level with the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets and Golden State Warriors, as well as MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays.
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