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NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING


Bowling’s a Slam Dunk


NBA star Griffin shows off on the lanes


ADD NBA superstar Blake Grif- fin to the growing list of round- ballers who seems to have an affinity for the other hardwood. Griffin, the former collegiate player of the year, NBA All-Star, NBA Rookie of the Year and win- ner of the NBA Slam Dunk con- test, was an integral player in


not one, but two charity bowling events this past summer and fall. The 6-foot 10-inch member of the Los Angeles Clippers par- ticipated in his team’s annual charity event, the BasketBowl Challenge, at Keystone Lanes in Norwalk, Calif., with proceeds benefiting the LA Clippers


Foundation and local children’s charities.


In August, Griffin used bowl- ing as a vehicle to raise money in honor of a lifelong friend who died earlier this year from Hodg- kin’s lymphoma.


Griffin’s Bowling Down Can- cer event, staged at AMF Moore


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Lanes in Moore, Okla., drew a sellout crowd of 400 and raised more than $100,000 for Stand Up to Cancer research and a schol- arship fund in the name of his fallen friend, Wilson Holloway. “Blake’s an outstanding young man,” said Holloway’s father, Willis.


HARDWOOD HERO DOES GOOD: Rising young basketball star Blake Griffin bowled in a pair of charity events, including his own event that raised more than $100,000 to fight cancer.


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