Word: eadington
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...travelers can buy National Bowling Stadium souvenirs right in the airport gift shops ("Reno Pinhead" caps are $14.95). On the bookshelves there, Dan Herbst's Bowling 300 shares space with Scarne's on Cards. The city and the sport are a good fit, says Eadington. "Reno by image is a working-class to middle-class locale, and that's consistent with bowlers. The way bowlers come in on these tournaments is ideal for a resort town: they're here for a fairly short period, and they don't strain the infrastructure capacity to the extent that major conferences...
...Reno has been lapped by Las Vegas in the race to capture the imagination of visitors to Nevada. There was a glut of hotel-casino space after a late '70s building boom and "for much of the 1980s, Reno was the wallflower of the casino industry," says Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. But four years ago, the city staked much of its future on bowling. And the gamble is paying off. The stadium's inaugural event, the 92nd annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress...
...every sport needs a showplace, and now Reno has bowling's. It remains an open question, according to Eadington, whether the extra business drawn by the facility will be enough to keep the North Nevada gaming industry healthy and growing over time. Reno is still the kind of city where the railroad tracks run right through the middle of downtown, no matter how many welcome bowlers go up outside the Reno Turf Club. But for Pearson on a recent Saturday, what he sees as he looks down on the 18th annual Reno Nisei Invitational is good news enough: 80 clean...