# New York Times: "Can playing Wii Sports improve athletic skill?"

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-york-times-can-playing-wii-sports-improve-athletic-skill/219324
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**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-york-times-can-playing-wii-sports-improve-athletic-skill/219324 "2007-03-15T17:52:53Z")
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### Author: ![hey\_suburbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@hey\_suburbia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hey_suburbia)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-york-times-can-playing-wii-sports-improve-athletic-skill/219324/1 "2007-03-15T17:52:53Z")

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On a recent trip to a bowling alley, Ms. Neary, a production manager at the South Philly Review, knocked down pins like a trophy winner even though it had been ages since she had rented bowling shoes. She credits her newfound skill to an unlikely source: three months of playing Wii bowling!

I scanned the whole article from the Newspaper (You can also go pick it up, it’s todays issue)

Read the rest:

[http://wiinintendo.net/2007/03/15/new-york-times-wii-sports-experiment/](http://wiinintendo.net/2007/03/15/new-york-times-wii-sports-experiment/)