Since my 20th year high school reunion is now just a month away, it got me thinking about how the first week of Fall League is like back to school for adults. It has been 20 years since I had a real first day of school. I went to college that we did an internship for six month of year and went to school for six months. For three years I did not go to school in September and in fact school ended for me in September since I went only March to August.

The only thing close to that back to school feeling is Fall League. Just like school we have friends that we only see at bowling so once bowling ends in the spring we do not see them all the summer. Of course just like school we have a group of friends at league that our friendship has transcended bowling. We invite them to parties and talk to them on the phone. Do not forget about the friends we go to summer camp with or summer league. Our summer leagues are made up of some people we bowl with every summer and only in the summer and some we bowl with all year.

Just like school during the first few weeks, you try to determine who left your league and who is new. The new team could end up being your favorite team and good friends by league end. You can meet up with old friends from leagues past or even from high school. Hey anything is possible because it a new season!

Not to lessen Kelly Kulick's accomplishment of winning of the 2007 Queens tournament but it was not good for Women's bowling. As every bowling fan knows Kulick was the first women to win an exempt spot on the Professional Bowlers Tour that up until this year only men have held exempt spots.

Why is her victory bad for Women's bowling? Well, she is now our Queen or women's best bowler in 2007. However, she had less then a stellar PBA performance this year. She only made match play 5 times in 19 tournaments. Just like in football on any given Sunday, a women bowler should be able to beat a male bowler. She was not able to win on the men's tournament. It makes people think if she is Queen and she can not win on the PBA tour then women are not as good bowlers as the men. Of course, she is the only women bowler who could bowl for a living. She has most likely rolled more games on different lane conditions then any other women bowler in the Queens tournament this year. That does make a different. However, I can not help but wonder could a Carolyn Dorin Ballard, Liz Johnson or Wendy Macpherson fare better on the PBA tour then Kelly.

Anyway, congratulations to Kelly Kulick for breaking the PBA barrier, winning the Queens and becoming a comic book character. You had one hell of year.