At first glance, the crowd dressed in white gathered at the southwest corner of Eisenhower Park in East Meadow might look as if they’re playing bocce, the popular summer sport of backyard barbecues.
Brian O'Byrne rolls his bowl toward the jack. Their lawn bowling rink has lights so they can play at night. Essex County Lawn Bowling Club has been around Watsessing Park since the early 1920's. They ...
On a recent Sunday afternoon, players looking to pick up a game of lawn bowling streamed into the Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club, towing their bowls in colorful rolling backpacks. They chatted and watched ...
Most people of a certain age grew up with three of everything — three TV stations, three friends and three sports: football, baseball and basketball. Now, kids have thousands of limitless TV channels, ...
The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland attracted more than 4,500 athletes from 71 nations and territories that once comprised the British Empire. The Games — which concluded on Aug. 3 — ...
Joe Kelly, the club's current president, discovered lawn bowling about 20 years ago with his now-husband “just roaming around on a Saturday morning,” he said. “We leaned over the fence on West 69th ...
Angel Gomez was 7 the first time he saw people lawn bowling. He thought it looked fun. And he thought something else. “Everybody who was playing seemed really old,” he said. That made him doubt ...
Tucked behind Witter Pool in Mission Park, members of the Spokane Lawn Bowling Club congregate over a pile of colorful spheres. They watch anxiously as one member crouches down, pulls out a ...