BATON ROUGE - We mentioned in this column a few weeks ago that the PBA on its web site was listing the top 25 bowlers of the first 25 seasons of this century.

The top five have been announced and based on the points system that involved Top 5s, standard tournament wins, major championships, etc., it was hard not to see how it would turn out. Maybe if there had been a human poll, some of the two-handed, one-handed bias of some folks might have made the voting very interesting.

But when all was said and done, the final five were as follows:

No. 5 Walter Ray Williams Jr. – 221 points

No. 4 Chris Barnes – 226.5 points

No. 3 Norm Duke – 236.5 points

No. 2 EJ Tackett – 327.5 points

No. 1 Jason Belmonte – 450.5 points

My immediate thoughts are that the points difference between 3-4-5 and

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