On the final day of the 2021 Petersen Classic, Matt Staninger fired an astounding 1,792 to win the tournament. Photo by Petersen Classic.
On June 23, 2014, Artistic Expressions 1 stunned the bowling world with a 3,720 series in the team event at the USBC Open Championships at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno.
In my story, I likened the 3,720 to Bob Beamon’s unfathomable long jump of 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches at the Olympics in Mexico City on Oct. 18, 1968. Such records typically were broken by fractions of an inch to inches, but Beamon went almost 2 feet past the prior record of 27 feet, 4 3/4 inches. Beamon's record stood...