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A League Of Ordinary Gentlemen
''A League of Ordinary Gentlemen'' is a documentary film about ten-pin bowling that was released on DVD on March 21, 2006. It was written and directed by Christopher Browne (director), Christopher Browne and stars PBA Tour players Pete Weber (bowler), Pete Weber, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Chris Barnes (bowler), Chris Barnes, and Wayne Webb. It was first televised nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS series ''Independent Lens'' on April 25, 2006. Synopsis The documentary takes place in the PBA Bowling Tour: 2002–03 season, 2002–03 PBA Tour season, and follows four professional ten-pin bowlers who are at various stages of their careers. The Professional Bowlers Association had been recently purchased by a trio of Microsoft programmers, who then hired Steve Miller (sports executive), Steve Miller, a Nike, Inc., Nike marketing guru, to revitalize the sport. Cast *Steve Miller (sports executive), Steve Miller *Wayne Webb, a 20-time champion and 1980 PBA Player of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Browne (director)
Christopher Browne, also known as Chris Browne, is an American documentary film maker and director. He is noted for directing the sports documentaries that "shed light on the oddballs and underdogs of the sporting world." Early life Browne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. While there, he was a varsity squash player and a member of St. Anthony Hall. Career Browne's film career began in New York City as a production assistant on television commercials. He then took a job on a documentary called ''The Paris Review…Early Chapters'' (2001) produced by Checkerboard Films. The movie, which chronicled George Plimpton's early years at the ''Paris Review'', offered the opportunity to work alongside legendary documentarian Albert Maysles. Working with Mr. Maysles spurred Brownes' interest in documentary film and he stayed at the Checkerboard Films another year where he supervised the post-production of ''The Paris Review: Early Years'', and helped produce ''Ralph Gib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002–03 Season
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Dydo Japan Cup
ROUND1 Japan Cup is an annual PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) and JPBA ( Japan Professional Bowling Association) bowling event sponsored by ROUND1. In its earlier years, the tournament typically featured the top 16 bowlers from each organization, but has recently enjoyed an expanded field. It has been dominated by PBA Tour professionals since 1989. Until Yuya Katoh's win in 2013, the last JPBA bowler to win the event was Takeo Sakai in 1988. The tournament celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010. The 2010 Dydo Japan Cup featured a starting field of 144 bowlers, which included JPBA members from Japan and South Korea, PBA members, and Japanese amateurs. The event was not held in 2011, due in large part to the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan. The 2013 edition of the Japan Cup was held from November 28 through December 1, 2013. The top 16 PBA Tour players (based on 2012-13 competition points), plus a handful of at-large PBA Tour invitees, joined a large field of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Anthony
Earl Roderick Anthony (April 27, 1938 – August 14, 2001) was an American professional ten-pin bowling, bowler who amassed records of 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. For over two decades, his career title count was listed as 41. The count was amended to 43 in 2008, when the PBA chose to retroactively award PBA titles for USBC Masters, ABC Masters championships if won by a PBA member at the time. He is widely credited (along with Dick Weber) for having increased bowling's popularity in the United States. He was the first bowler to earn over $100,000 in a season (PBA Bowling Tour: 1975 Season, 1975), and the first to reach $1,000,000 in lifetime PBA earnings (PBA Bowling Tour: 1982 Season, 1982). His ten professional major titles—six PBA World Championship, PBA National Championships, two Firestone Tournament of Champions titles, and two ABC Masters (now United States Bowling Congress, USBC Masters) titles—are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaoke
is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone. Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. In recent times, lyrics are typically displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol, changing colour, or music video images, to guide the singer. In Chinese-speaking countries and regions such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, a karaoke box is called a KTV. The global karaoke market has been estimated to be worth nearly $10 billion. Karaoke's global popularity has been fueled by technological advancements, making it a staple of social gatherings and entertainment venues all over the world. The precursors of karaoke machines using cassette tapes made their first appearances in Japan and the Philippines in the 1970s. Commercial versions manufactured by Japanese companies using LaserDisc became available world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Pedersen
Randy Pedersen (born May 28, 1962) is an American sportscaster and former professional Bowler (ten-pin), bowler as a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He is currently a color analyst for Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports' coverage of the PBA Tour, formerly filling that same role on ESPN and CBS Sports Network telecasts in previous seasons. During the most recent PBA Tour season, he worked alongside play-by-play announcers Rob Stone (sportscaster), Rob Stone, Dave Ryan (sportscaster), Dave Ryan, John Fanta and Dave LaMont, having previously worked with Lon McEachern and Mike Jakubowski. Pedersen grew up in Southern California, but relocated to Clermont, Florida in the early 1990s. He has resided in Florida ever since. He and his ex-wife Becky have two children: a son, Chad and a daughter, Savannah. Pedersen is a member of the PBA and United States Bowling Congress, USBC Halls of Fame. Bowling career As a bowler, Pedersen won 13 PBA Tour titles, with 11 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 (branded on-air as FS1) is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by the Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. FS1 airs an array of live sporting events, including Major League Baseball and the World Baseball Classic, college sports (most notably Big Ten Conference, Big Ten, Pac-12 Conference, Pac-12 and Big 12 Conference, Big 12 football, and Big East Conference, Big East basketball), association football, soccer matches (including Major League Soccer, Liga MX, CONCACAF Champions Cup, and FIFA World Cup), and a variety of motorsports events. FS1 also features daily sports news, analysis and discussion programming as well as sports-related reality television, reality and documentary film, documentary programs. FS1 replaced the motorsports-centric network Speed (TV network), Speed on August 17, 2013, while its companion channel Fox Sports 2 replaced Fuel TV. Both FS1 and FS2 carried over most of the sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superhero (Stephen Lynch Album)
''Superhero'' is a live album by singer/comedian Stephen Lynch. "Priest", "Mother's Day" and "Lullaby (The Divorce Song)" were originally recorded on his first CD '' A Little Bit Special''. It was recorded live at four different comedy clubs in New York and New Jersey. Along with ''A Little Bit Special'' and '' The Craig Machine'', the album has sold over 250,000 copies. His second official album, ''Superhero'', released in 2002, with What Are Records?, generally received better reviews than the first, partly because of strong audience response. The title track is 8 minutes and 58 seconds long, and largely consists of Lynch receiving the audience's suggestions for names for superheroes. Track listing A bonus live version of the song "Special Olympics" is included at about 5:40 into "Lullaby" (after a period of silence between the two songs), and was likely hidden there to avoid controversy over the title and content of the song. Personnel * Stephen Lynch – guitar, vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Lynch (musician)
Stephen Andrew Lynch (born July 28, 1971) is an American comedian, musician and actor who is known for his satirical songs mocking daily life and popular culture. Lynch has released four studio albums and four live albums along with a live DVD. This DVD, '' Live at the El Rey'', was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He has appeared in two ''Comedy Central Presents'' specials and starred in the Broadway adaptation of ''The Wedding Singer'', earning multiple award nominations. Lynch released a double-disc album, ''Lion'', in 2012, and a live concert video, '' Hello, Kalamazoo'', in 2016. Like ''Lion'', 2019's ''My Old Heart'' was half recorded in studio and half from a live concert. The A to Z Entertainment website has written, "His unique blend of musical based comedy has earned him fiercely loyal fans around the world who live to experience his sold-out live shows." Early life and education Lynch was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Barnes
Lynda Barnes (née Norry, born October 7, 1967) is one of the world's leading female tenpin bowlers. She is a former member of the PWBA (Professional Women's Bowling Association). Bowling as an amateur, Lynda won the 1998 USBC Queens championship, then known as the WIBC Queens. In 1999, Lynda married Chris Barnes, a leading bowler on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour. The couple's twin sons, Troy and Ryan, were born in May 2002. Lynda is a former member of Team USA. In 2005, along with Paul Moor of England, she was named the 2005 World Bowling Writers Bowler of the Year. Lynda appears briefly in the 2006 documentary ''A League of Ordinary Gentlemen'', as her husband was one of four PBA bowlers highlighted in the film. In August 2006, Lynda competed in the USBC Women's Challenge tournament held at a mall in Las Vegas. The made-for-TV event was later shown on ESPN in a weekly format throughout September and October. She also qualified 7th in the 2007 U.S. Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Weber
Richard Anthony Weber (December 23, 1929 – February 13, 2005) was an American professional bowler and founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Along with Don Carter, Weber is widely regarded as professional bowling's first superstar. He was the first player in history to earn 30 PBA Tour titles, a level reached by only seven other players since. Career Weber made his first bowling headlines during the early 1950s, while working as a mailman in his native Indianapolis. In 1955 he moved to Florissant, Missouri to join the bowling team named the Budweisers (after the popular American beer brand). The team established a long-standing 5-man ABC league series record on March 12, 1958, at the National Team Match Games at Floriss Lanes in St. Louis, Missouri by toppling 3,858 pins with 138 strikes. This broke the previous ABC record for a 5-man team of 3,797 set in 1937. Weber himself rolled games of 258, 258 and 259 on the record-setting day for a 775 series. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
