Diminished?  Half of nothing is still nothing.

well i believe the article basically explained it...

it said that X bowlers are regularly bowling honor scores yet do not get any type of recognition in the papers..... well if they are bowling a 300 or 800 that often, then how special is it?? not very.....

20+ years ago, a 300 / 800 was still special.... 

now, someone bowls a 300, and it's like ummmm ok, it was on a easy shot and he pulled this shot or went brooklyn twice, or yanked this shot and got lucky...  nobody cares.. 

yet in golf... the standard between being a local pro or house pro or w/e vs being on the tour is still very visable..  people in golf know the difference between being good on the local course vs shooting 90+ on a PGA course.. 

If bowling went back to the old school days where averaging 200+ was actually considered good.... and bowling alley's stopped pumping out 300's like it was their job...

then maybe bowling would get more recognition when someone would shoot a Honor score.   

Heck i can remember back in 2000, i shot a 300 during our city tournament and was mentioned in the local paper in the city I lived in at the time... 

2 years later, i shoot 2 - 300's a 299 and various other scores and didnt have any of my scores mentioned in the local paper.. WHy??  because all of the places in town started pumping out 300's like it was going out of style...  So every week someone was or several people was shooting 300 or 800... 

You mean bowling gets covered in papers?

Gosh, I never would have guess that it was an article by Bill Herald.     When are people going to get over the fact that bowling's "glory days" are 20 years behind them?  Tour on tv live not even half the time, on a cable channel that not everybody gets, no-name new-name Europeans, the list goes on and on.  Tell me, is pro darts covered in your paper?  How about pro billiards?  No?  Shocking.  They are on the same level of the public radar as bowling.  The bowling industry and bowlers have to learn to be content with recognition from within the bolwing world itself and coverage from the two magazines devoted to bowling.  That's all your going to get.

 Ummmmm, soccer is the worlds number one sport, right, so why are you surprised at media coverage ?

Ummmmm, soccer is the worlds number one sport, right, so why are you surprised at media coverage ?

The newspaper runs soccer because it's easier to take it off the wire (rather than have a staffer compile local bowling news and enter it into the system).

Kinda hard to respect a sport that is tape delayed. They can still get sponsors but get as much media coverage now as poker and pool. Live events do make a difference. Couldn't imagine a NFL game tape delayed.