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PBA Viper Championship proves some old bowling adages true

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 12/23/2012, 6:00 PM
PBA Viper Championship proves some old bowling adages true
Brad Angelo took the PBA Viper Championship title on Sunday with a bizarre 233-232 title match win over Mika Koivuniemi. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
It happens to everyone. If you give a champion a chance to beat you, he often will. If you bowl on Tour long enough, everything that can happen to you will happen to you — good and bad. Those are some old bowling adages that proved true in the unbelievable ending to Sunday's PBA Viper Championship — a 233-232 win for Brad Angelo. Mika Koivuniemi is one of the greatest champions in PBA history — he wouldn't have the nickname "Major Mika" if that wasn't true. But even the ve...

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