The bowling world has dramatically closed the gap on the United States and U.S. dominance of international competition no longer is a given. Team USA still can easily field the strongest team, but the vagaries of lane conditions, pin carry and single-game matches make winning no certainty. Just look at the 2013 World Championships, where Team USA fell short of gold for both men and women, losing the title matches to Finland and Korea, respectively, as I wrote up here. But who would bet...