Every once in a while Jim Rome will bring up bowling only to make fun of it and today was one of those days. He started off by saying that its a sad day for those beer swilling, cigarette smoking, chili cheese fries eating people, thats right the bowlers. He then went into a diatribe about what else would have Earl died of but a heart attack. It would not been all the chili cheese fries and beer he drank.

Everyone knows that Earl Anthony did many great things for the sport and now many will only know of him as a guy that died from possibly too many beers and snack bar food thanks to Jim Rome's lie. (Earl Anthony died from trauma to his head after tripping down the stairs. There was not a heart attack.)

What can we do as bowlers to teach Jim Rome what bowlers are really about?

Absolutely nothing.

Once again, the Gnome known as Jim Rome has forgotten to take his Prozac and gotten his little man complex completely in a rage.

He's dissed bowling before, and he will do so again.

Real bowling fans know a schtick when they hear one, and Rome's schpiel is just a way for him to make a buck.

Thankfully, Earl didn't have to hear it. As for the rest of us, we can only hope that some day Rome learns the meaning of the words class and respect as well as Mr. Anthony did.