Happy Radio Bowling Day!

Over the past week, we've had Valentines Day, Presidents Day and Daytona 500 Day (yeah, it's not official, but just go with it)... comes now The Messenger's favorite holiday of the whole year, the one afternoon he gets to recap all of the action from last weekend's NJSIAA bowling finals on WGHT's Sports Overtime.

TM has been a part-time employee at GHT (a.k.a. North Jersey 1500) since 2002 and has been to the State finals at Carolier Lanes every year, save one; his streak of continuous appearances dates to 2004. Back when the boys, girls and singles tournaments were all held on Presidents Day, the following day became his one shining moment of the whole year to talk bowling on the airwaves.

Now, with all 3 tournaments spread out over one week... TM still only gets one day to recap everything. However, this year things have come full circle, and the annual bowling feature can be heard today at 2:30 PM on 1500AM, or online at ghtradio.com -- just click on the big ol' "LISTEN LIVE" button at the top.

A couple of folks inquired over the course of the past week about obtaining tapes of past editions of the Annual GHT High School Bowling Extravaganza (TM's title for it, not theirs). As noted on the NJBB last March, the Sports Department's sound archives were wiped out in the Giant Unforeseen Flood of Spring 2010 (also an original moniker). However, they were able to save the 2010 bowling feature and, naturally, will have this year's tape available following today's show. Just e-mail sports@ghtradio.com to request a copy.

Since The Messenger doesn't want to give away everything that's going to be on today's program, he is waiting for its conclusion to post his thoughts, ramblings, etc. on all of last week's action at Carolier Lanes... Also, it took him nearly this long just to compile all the spreadsheets, because darnit, when we said the NJBB would strive to include that extra info that they can't fit into the newspapers, we meant it... Also also, TM got mildly distracted by the other aforementioned holidays of last week, plus an old rerun of "Celebrity Bowling" on ESPN Classic yesterday that featured the late, great Pat Morita as one of the competitors. It's not a great excuse, but I'm not making this up, either.

So sit tight, oh loyal NJ Bowling Blog reader(s) -- the small-but-appreciated band that you are -- TM still has plenty of info to pass along before folding his tent for the spring. True, 2011 entries have been sporadic, but if you don't think we're running our annual Parker Bohn III/Johnny Petraglia All-Star teams, you don't know the NJBB! And if you do -- thanks for reading :)

See you on the other side...
-TM