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Bowl Championship Series
Bowl Championship Series (BCS), 1998-2013 college football postseason system matching the top two BCS-ranked teams in a title game via polls, computer rankings, and schedule strength; replaced by the College Football Playoff.
Bowl game
A bowl game is a post-season college football game, named after the Rose Bowl stadium; the first was the 1902 Tournament East-West game, Michigan beating Stanford 49-0.
Bowler hat
Bowler hat, also called derby or Coke hat: hard felt hat with dome crown and curled brim, created 1849 by Lock & Co. for Edward Coke's gamekeepers; later City of London icon and traditional Aymara women's dress in Bolivia.
Bowline
The bowline, also called the bowline hitch, is a knot forming a fixed loop at a rope's end that holds under load and unties easily.
Bowline Point power station
Bowline Point power station, also called the Bowline Generating Station, is a 1,242 MW gas- and oil-fired power plant in West Haverstraw, New York, on the Hudson River.
Bowling
Bowling is an indoor sport, chiefly ten-pin bowling, in which a ball is rolled down an 18.3 m oiled lane at ten pins; ten frames, 300 maximum score, codified in 19th-century America.
Bowling (cricket)
Bowling is the action in cricket where a player delivers the ball toward the batter using an overarm action. It aims to take wickets or restrict runs.
Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone is Robert D. Putnam's 1995 Journal of Democracy article and 2000 Simon & Schuster book arguing that American civic engagement and social capital declined sharply after the 1960s, mainly through generational succession.
Bowling at the Asian Games
Bowling at the Asian Games is a ten-pin bowling competition held as an official medal sport at selected editions, debuting in 1978 and missing 1982, 1990, and Hangzhou 2022.
Bowling at the multi-sport games
Bowling at the multi-sport games covers ten-pin bowling at the Pan American Games, where the United States leads with 25 gold medals, and at The World Games through 2022.
Bowling at the Summer Olympics
Bowling at the Summer Olympics: ten-pin bowling appeared only as a non-medal demonstration sport at Seoul 1988, with men's and women's individual events won by Arianne Cerdeña; later bids for Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 failed.
Bowling at the World Games
Bowling at the World Games is the ten-pin bowling competition held at every edition from Santa Clara 1981 through Birmingham 2022, governed by the International Bowling Federation.
Bowling average
Bowling average, in cricket, is runs conceded divided by wickets taken, the runs-per-wicket cost of a bowler. Related to economy and strike rate by average = economy × strike rate ÷ 6; most valued in Test cricket.
Bowling ball
Bowling ball: the sphere rolled at pins in ten-pin bowling. Modern balls pair an inner core with a plastic, urethane, or reactive resin coverstock; USBC limits diameter to 8.500–8.595 inches and weight to 16 pounds.
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine (2002) is Michael Moore's Oscar-winning documentary on American gun culture, built around the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, its Cannes 55th Anniversary Prize, and its disputed factual claims.
Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup (BFS) is an American pop-punk band formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas, based in Denton. Known for "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" and "1985," it earned a Grammy nomination and still tours.
Bowling green
Bowling green: the level, close-mown turf surface for lawn bowls, also a historic sunken garden lawn; 31-40 m long with 4.3-5.8 m rinks; namesake of New York's first park (1733).
Bowling Green Bay National Park
Bowling Green Bay National Park, a 57,900 ha Queensland park south of Townsville with Mount Elliot (1221 m), Cape Cleveland and Bowling Green Bay sections; its wetlands form a 1993 Ramsar site, one of five in Queensland.
Bowling Green Falcons football
Bowling Green Falcons football: BGSU's NCAA FBS team in the Mid-American Conference, playing at Doyt L. Perry Stadium since 1919, with 12 MAC titles and the 1959 national championship.
Bowling Green massacre
Fictitious terrorist attack cited by Kellyanne Conway on MSNBC, February 2, 2017, to defend Trump's travel ban; based loosely on a real 2011 Iraqi refugee case in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but no massacre occurred and Conway later corrected it.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University (BGSU), founded 1910 in Bowling Green, Ohio, is a public R2 research university with over 20,000 students, two campuses, 200+ undergraduate majors, and the 1984 NCAA hockey title.
Bowling Green station
Bowling Green station is a New York City Subway station in Lower Manhattan, served by the 4 and 5 trains on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, opened in 1905.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green, Kentucky: county seat of Warren County, incorporated 1812, population 72,294 (2020). Confederate capital of Kentucky 1861-62, home of Western Kentucky University and the National Corvette Museum.
Bowls
Bowls (lawn bowls) is a target sport with biased bowls rolled toward a jack on grass or carpet, governed by World Bowls (57 member nations), a Commonwealth Games sport since 1930 under the Crystal Mark Fourth Edition laws.
Bowman Coast
Bowman Coast: Antarctic Peninsula east coast between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz, discovered by Hubert Wilkins' 20 December 1928 flight, named for Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society.
Bowman Gray Stadium
Bowman Gray Stadium, the "Madhouse," is a quarter-mile flat asphalt oval in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; NASCAR's longest-running weekly track since 1949, host of 29 Cup races 1958-1971 and the 2025-2026 Cook Out Clash.
Bowman Peninsula
Bowman Peninsula: ice-covered peninsula on Palmer Land's east coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 74°49'S 62°16'W, dividing Lassiter Coast from Orville Coast; about 25 mi long, named for geographer Isaiah Bowman, photographed by RARE in 1947.
Bowman's capsule
Bowman's capsule, the glomerular capsule, is the double-walled epithelial sac at the nephron's start that surrounds the glomerulus; its podocyte and parietal layers enclose Bowman's space where blood filtrate collects.
Bowmanville
Bowmanville, Ontario: community in Clarington, Durham Region, on Lake Ontario. Known for the Darlington nuclear site and BWRX-300 SMR project, the Bowmanville GO Extension, and the Bowmanville Hospital redevelopment.
Boworadet rebellion
The Boworadet rebellion (กบฏบวรเดช) was a royalist revolt in Siam led by Prince Boworadet in October 1933 against the post-revolutionary government, which defeated it within two weeks.