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Lawn bowlers converge on Milwaukee's Lake Park for National Championships this week
It’s a sport that has been around for thousands of years, but you may have been “today years old” when you first heard about it. Lawn bowling—are you familiar?
I wasn’t, but we received a message from David Semrow asking if we were going to cover the National Lawn Bowling Championship at Lake Park.
Watch: Lawn bowling headed to Milwaukee.
Lawn bowlers converge on Milwaukee’s Lake Park for National Championships this week
I went to check it out Tuesday as players from Wisconsin, Arizona, California, and Florida competed on day one. To simply explain how the game works: there’s a small white ball on the green, and you roll a larger ball, hoping to get as close to the white ball as possible.
President of the Central Division Jim Cavender told me the sport is similar to bocce. He’s been playing for 45 years.
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His son has also caught the “lawn bowling bug” and is competing this week. I just had to know how many times people ask Jim, “What is lawn bowling?”
“Oh my gosh, I’ve gotten it all. Me and a friend were on the airplane explaining the game as we were flying out to California to a tournament. And at the end, I think a stewardess asked, ‘So how do they get that many lawns to mow in the city of Los Angeles?’ I said, ‘No, it’s not lawn mowing, it’s lawn bowling,” Cavender said.
Tournament Director and competitor Anna Witt stumbled upon the game totally by accident.
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“I was wandering around, came across Lake Park, came across all of these old people dressed up in white playing some game I’d never seen before. I got close to the fence and somebody noticed me and they’re like ‘hi, do you want to learn how to play? We give free lessons,’” Witt said.
It has been 18 years since the national games have been played in Milwaukee. You can stop by Lake Park to watch throughout the day today until Friday. The winner will go to “Worlds,” which are played in places like Australia and Scotland, where the sport is really popular.
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Milwaukee Wave coach Marcio Leite 2025-26 team’s evolution in MASL
See first-year Milwaukee Wave head coach Marcio Leite discuss the roles of younger players and veterans as the 2025-26 MASL season begins.
The Milwaukee Wave had been in the awkward position of trying to sell tickets to the MASL championship series without knowing when it would actually host a game.
The questions were answered late April 19, when the San Diego Sockers beat the St. Louis Ambush in the other semifinal in overtime. Their series didn’t even start until four days after the Wave eliminated the Baltimore Blast with victories in a regulation Game 2 and knockout Game 3 at the UWM Panther Arena.
Now the finals are set for two of the most decorated teams in arena soccer.
The Wave will host Game 1 at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 and then the series will finish at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, with Game 2 at 9:30 p.m. April 24 and a potential Game 3 at 9 p.m. April 27.
Three versions of the Sockers have totaled 16 championships in various indoor league with the latest iteration founded in 2009 owning six of those. The Wave has seven.
First-year Wave head coach Marcio Leite has won titles with both franchises.
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred on early Sunday morning on the 4900 block of W. Capitol Drive that left one person injured.
An 18-year-old sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
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The police is currently looking for an unknown suspect at this time.
Those with information regarding the shooting are encouraged to contact the Milwaukee Police at (414) 935-7360 or contact Crime Stoppers at (414) 224-TIPS or P3 Tips to remain anonymous.
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MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
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