This Sunday on ESPN:
PBA GEICO Shark Championship

The PBA GEICO Shark Championship is the fifth telecast of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season and will air Sunday, Dec. 26 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.

For the second consecutive week the telecast will feature an international-laden stepladder finals field where four countries are represented: Australia, Finland, Canada and U.S. It is also the first PBA stepladder final to feature two players who use a two-handed delivery (Jason Belmonte and Osku Palermaa).

The GEICO Shark Championship is the last of the five "animal" pattern events conducted as part of the PBA World Series of Bowling. The final event from the World Series of Bowling will be the USA vs. The World' team event on Jan. 9 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.

Eugene McCune won the season-opening Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship, followed by Bill O'Neill winning the Pepsi Viper Championship, Scott Norton then won the Chameleon Championship and Yung-Jin Gu became the first Korean to win a PBA Tour title in the Scorpion Championship.

PBA GEICO Shark Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:

Match 1:
No. 5 Mike Fagan, Patchogue, N.Y. vs. No. 4 Jason Belmonte, Australia
Match 2:
Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich.
Match 3:
Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Osku Palermaa, Finland
Championship Match
Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Dan MacLelland, Canada

Additional PBA Tour coverage may be accessed by visiting pba.com and its Xtra Frame subscription video service.