Congratulations to the men’s and women’s bowling teams at Wichita State University for both winning the United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Team Championships — the ninth national title for each program. It was the second consecutive national title for the men, while the women won their third title in five seasons. Is there any college program in the nation that dominates a sport more than WSU’s bowling teams?
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Wichita has been known as a bowling town from its World War II days when the airplane manufacturing companies were working around the clock.
A brand new world class bowling emporium with all the bells and whistles built along Wichita’s downtown Arkansas River would have been far more preferable than the unwanted, unneeded white elephant 1/2 billion dollar Intrust downtown arena failure.
A world class bowling emporium would have been a destination for tourists from all over the world. Many might have stayed for a week or so bowling and enjoying the midwest.
Keglers, pinheads, funny looking shoes, day glow sparkling bowling balls.
Where splits are bad and knocking down ten is acceptable.
It’s hip to be square. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_byVtHrGEM
Uhh…mmmm.
Does this really belong here?
Bowling is a collegiate “sport?”
Maybe they bowl overhand.
How’s the WSU cribbage team this year?
Bowling
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The only sport where a fat, chain smoking drunk can be a champion.
The only sport where a fat, chain smoking drunk can be a champion.
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You are forgetting darts. And golf. And slow-pitch softball. And shuffleboard. And horseshoes.
And pool.
fleettwood
Posted April 21, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
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I stand corrected.
It’s not a “sport” unless your opponent can play defense.
– Monkeyhawk’s Law
WTG Shocker Bowlers!! Forget about the blowhards who hoot at ya!! Keep rollin them strikes!! Make a name for yourselves while you still can!! National Champions!! Wooo Hooo!!! GREAT Victory!!
I stand a little wobbly while playing those games.
It’s not a “sport” unless your opponent can play defense.
– Monkeyhawk’s Law
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Some friends and I tried playing darts like that once. It was a bad idea.
An International Bowling Emporium with all the neon, bells and whistles located along the Arkansas River would have brought in thousands of multi-cultural visitors from all over the world to sample Wichita’s family atmosphere, moderate meal prices, walking pathways along the Arkansas River. Additional amenities for the international bowling crowd could have been, as suggested above, miniture golf, ping pong tournaments, shuffle board tournaments, dart contests, lazy afternoons drifting on sale boats on the Arkansas.
Keep the uncontrolled drinking areas and professional sports contests as far away as possible.
Bring Amtrak railroad service to Wichita from north and south to Wichita’s historic union station. Renovate all the downtown “roaring, golden twenties” office buildings to capitalize on that theme.
Implode the Intrust sports arena, that’s right, tear it down to clear that site for parking for the Union Station with a walkaround to access each. And furnish trolley cars transporting passengers to the sparkling new bowling emporium.
But, wait a minute. This dream was destroyed by the downtown Intrust Arena cheerleaders who spent millions and millions of Wichita tax dollars for the albatross white elephant arena. Most of those arena cheerleaders have now left Wichita laughing at the local taxpayers who bought their non-existent band uniforms here in River City.