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Mixing Pool and Bowling? Don't 'Knokk' It 'Til You Try It
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsCalifornia entrepreneur Sam Sparks has created a sport dubbed "Knokkers" -- but he insists it's not a whole new ballgame. "Everyone has seen pool and everyone has seen bowling -- and everyone has probably played both," Sparks told AOL News. "There is a familiarity that is inviting. People don't have much of an aversion to it, even though it's new." For the most part, Knokkers is just like billiards, only bigger. Much bigger. Knokkers Inc. In most cases, climbing on the pool table marks the end of a billiards game. In Knokkers, that's how the game begins. The new game mixes the ...
Should Obama Replace White House Bowling Alley with Basketball Court?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFew questions are more important than whether or not the White House bowling alley, installed by Richard Nixon, has a future in an Obama Administration. As chronicled in The Wall Street Journal, hoops will be the diversion of choice for the president-elect and his lane-slashing cabinet:"I think we are putting together the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history," the president-elect said at a news conference earlier this week.During the campaign, Mr. Obama said he planned to replace the white House bowling alley--installed by Richard Nixon in 1969--with an indoor basketball ...
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