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Palermaa wins first international PBA title under WTBA alliance

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:00 am
Palermaa wins first international PBA title under WTBA alliance
Osku Palermaa, center, earned $25,000 and his third career PBA title in winning the Kuwait Open. Picture by Pro Bowlers Association.
Osku Palermaa earned $25,000 and his third career PBA title in winning the Kuwait Open on Monday, and I would wager he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of it. The event is the first international tournament to award a PBA title under a new alliance between the PBA and the World Tenpin Bowling Association. Some posters on the PBA message board were questioning the propriety of awarding a PBA Tour title in an event that featured only about a dozen regular PBA Tour members. That, to me, is...