Bowling With The Fef!

I’m a big fan of finding and trying new social media platforms.  When I first heard about Bluesky several weeks ago, I didn’t see it as a substitute for any other platform or away to signal my political leaning. The former would probably fly in the face of what I’m trying to do with the marketing of Bowling With The Fef!, and the latter is something that almost always has nothing to do with Bowlin...

Did Nate Purches just have his best week EVER? Maybe for now...but, if his current trajectory in bowling continues into 2025 and beyond, he will probably top it soon! Purches, of Fond du Lac, WI, combined a runner-up finish at the PBA Regional Players Invitational in Reno, NV on Sunday (Dec. 15, 2024) with receiving the 2024 Harry Golden PBA Rookie of the Year award a few days prior. And Purches i...

Nate Purches of Fond du Lac, WI had a rookie season on the PBA Tour in 2024 that was outstanding.  Before all that, he was a talented junior bowler who got a taste of the bright lights of TV during the PBA Junior Finals in March 2021. At the time, he was 17-years-old and a few months away from starting college at UW-Whitewater. He discussed that on the show along with Shawn Wochner in this flashba...

For the first time in several years, UW-Eau Claire's club bowling program has both mens and womens teams. Our guest is the coach who guides them all toward success! In October, the club announced that Alex Bandli would be at the helm of both teams. The Blugolds have had some great teams dating back to the early and mid 1990s and are working toward creating more magic in the 2024-25 season. Bandli...

In July of this year, a new Executive Director came on board to lead one of the most well-known charitable organizations in the bowling community. Jessica Abel of Broadalbin, NY started in the role at Bowlers to Veterans Link ( https://bvl.org/ ) after two years of work at the International Bowling Campus and a successful run as a competitor at Wichita State University that included a national cha...

Every year around this time of November, people in the bowling community and beyond ask 'What’s up with this “Feftacular?”'   Well, to truly know what The Feftacular is all about, you have to know about SerbskE$ Club.   It was during this episode of Bowling With The Fef! in June 2022 that the team asked if I would sub with them.   Because I typically bowl on Thursday nights, and they bowl on Wedne...

In each of the past two years, the PBA has stopped at FireLake Lanes in Shawnee, OK. One was a national tour stop in 2023. The other, a Southwest Region event this past May. But the rosters for these events had something in common: both included PBA Tour champion Joe Firpo. It was June 1987 when Firpo and doubles partner Del Warren took the title at the Showboat Doubles Classic. He appeared on tel...

PBA Tour champ Joe Firpo reached out to me recently about a Bowling With The Fef episode he watched. He said that there is nothing funnier that the stories from a couple of those guests. Of course, I had to ask him if he would come on the show. He will on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 live on the YouTube channel and shortly after here on the podcast. Firpo’s win on the national tour was a doubles t...

When we last heard from Christine Rebstock of Middletown, CT on the show more than three years ago, she was looking forward to improving on the lanes and winning another New England Bowlers Association tournament. Times have changed, and so have some of Christine's priorities. "...my eyes have been opened about gender ideology..." Christine said in a message exchange last month. She's taken some s...

Christine Rebstock is returning to the show this week in an episode called It’s not for someone like me to bowl. We’ll get to the “it” on Wednesday November 13 2024 at 8 p.m. central live on the Bowling With The Fef YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/live/IrNKsAQ4RyQ ) and soon after on this podcast. For now, a flashback to Ep. 30 on the show: What’s in a name, from June of 2021. That's when Ch...

Along with the premiere Bowling With The Fef podcast All She Knows So Far, Katey Haflund and I recorded another, shorter, conversation. We talked about bringing non-bowlers into the sport and taking on the role of an ambassador, string pins, and a day back in the early 1990s in Minneapolis that I will never forget. "Bonus Balls" is a podcast exclusive and will not appear on the YouTube channel in...

This guest loves great music, time with friends and Minnesota, but bowling has always been her passion. Katey Haflund of Coon Rapids, MN caught the bowling bug early, and quickly found success in competitive youth bowling. As one of the standouts in the North Metro Traveling League in the Twin Cities, she has improved consistently through the years, competing with Minnesota's best on adult tournam...