For most of my nearly 50 years, Milwaukee was a place where the mainstream sports media had at least a passing knowledge of and respect for bowling. With the PBA Tour in town each year, bowling headquarters in suburban Greendale, tens of thousands of league bowlers, and numerous tournaments headlined by WTMJ-TV's Bowling With the Champs, bowling was almost as deeply ingrained in the culture of Milwaukee as beer. While that has faded with the PBA Tour, bowling headquarters and the Champs all...