BOWLING SCORES (The Evening Times)

(By Glen Garvin, The Miami Herald) How bad is the American economy? So bad that we’re having to import our punch lines from Sweden. When you watch 32 Super Bowl commercials and the most memorable slogan is Skillnaden ar drinkability, you know you’ve got a problem. Abandoned by many of its most faithful advertisers, including…

The opening event of the 2010 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the Barclays Championship, gets underway this Thursday at the A.W. Tillinghast designed Ridgeway Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey. More: continued here

The Memphis market figures prominently in FedEx Corp. testing of different electric vehicle types and mass replacement of conventional vehicles with clean diesel Sprinter vans. More: continued here

July 28 (Bloomberg) — TNT NV , Europe’s No.2 express- delivery company, slumped as much as 11 percent after second-quarter profit fell short of analyst estimates and it said 2008 earnings will be at the low end of a forecast range. More: continued here

FedEx Corp. announced a general rate increase of 5.5 percent Wednesday for its FedEx Freight trucking division. More: continued here

NEW YORK (AP) — An Associated Press calculation shows FedEx’s CEO’s pay fell two percent in 2011, mostly because his perks were worth less than in 2010. More: continued here