Go bowling almost anywhere in the world, from California to Copenhagen, and it’s going to look pretty much the same. Weighty, nearly nine-inch balls being hurled down a lane toward 10 hefty, ...

Even if you haven’t seen the 1996 cult comedy “Kingpin” about bowling and redemption, you can probably imagine Bill Murray’s indelible character Ernie (Big Ern) McCracken: With sweat on his brow and a ...