A half dozen of the top bowlers on the Denny's PBA Tour will gather in Orlando, Fla., this week for the fourth annual Motel 6 Roll to Riches, a season-ending special event with a winner-take-all $150,000 top prize, the biggest pay off in professional bowling. The event will take place Tuesday, April 8 at 6 p.m. ET at Colonial Lanes and will air as two back-to-back one-hour shows on ESPN Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. ET. This season's Major winners – Norm Duke, Michael Haugen Jr. and Sean Rash – will be joined by defending champion Doug Kent and Parker Bohn III and Chris Barnes.

The final two weeks of the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour kick off this week with the 2008 GEICO Classic at AMF Babylon Lanes in West Babylon, N.Y. A lot will be determined over the next two weeks, including exemptions for the 2008-09 season as well as the 2007-08 PBA Player of the Year award which could come down to the final Sunday of the season. Rhino Page had already locked up the 2007-08 PBA Rookie of the Year award, an exemption for the 2008-09 Denny’s PBA Tour season and the greatest season by a TQR bowler in the four years since the format changed.

With his seventh championship round appearance of the season and second in a Major, Walter Ray Williams Jr. opened up a 12-point lead over Chris Barnes in the 2007-08 PBA Player of the Year race with four events remaining. Thanks to his win last week, Norm Duke jumped from a non-factor to tied for 10th. Read on later for full standings. The Denny’s PBA Tour rolls into Columbus, Ohio, this week for the 2008 Don Johnson Buckeye State Classic, Feb. 26-March 2 at Sequoia Pro Bowl.

Chris Barnes took a big step toward earning his first PBA Player of the Year award by winning last week's Bayer Classic at Oasis Lanes in El Paso, Texas. Barnes, who has made a Tour-leading eight championship round appearances and is No. 2 in the PBA World Point Rankings, finally overtook Walter Ray Williams Jr., who had held the lead for 13 weeks. Williams dropped down to second, followed by H&R Block Tournament of Champions winner Michael Haugen Jr.

Over the first half of the 2007-08 Denny's PBA Tour it looked as if Walter Ray Williams Jr. (l.) might run away with his record-breaking seventh PBA Player of the Year award. With recent surges by Patrick Allen, Chris Barnes, Michael Haugen Jr. and Wes Malott, among others, the race has tightened. Haugen's (r.) win in the H&R Block Tournament of Champions gave him 24 points and pushed him into second in the race, just four points behind Williams, who hasn't made a championship round in the second half of the season.

PBA Hall of Famers Pete Weber and Walter Ray Williams Jr. will each look to reach historic milestones in the H&R Block Tournament of Champions, which gets underway Wednesday. Weber needs another T of C to become the first bowler to win each of the Triple Crown events twice (T of C, U.S. Open, World Championship), while Williams will look to become just the second bowler to win all five PBA Majors - the USBC Masters, PBA World Championship, T of C, U.S. Open and the now-defunct Touring Players Championship. Weber will also look to break a tie with Anthony for most career Majors as they are tied atop the list with eight. Williams, with seven career Majors, will look to pull into a three-way tie.

Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley, Calif., plays host to the 12th event of the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour this week with the third annual Motel 6 Dick Weber Open, Jan. 16-20. This week’s event marks the seventh consecutive season Fountain Bowl has hosted a Denny’s PBA Tour stop, tied with three other centers (Lava Lanes in Medford, Ore., Spectrum Lanes in Wyoming, Mich., and Taylor Lanes in Taylor, Mich.) for the longest current streak as a Denny’s PBA Tour host. The event also marks the third consecutive season Fountain Bowl has hosted a tournament in honor of the late Dick Weber, who was one of bowling’s biggest stars and its greatest ambassador.

The 11th event of the 2007-08 Denny's PBA Tour takes place this week with the 2008 Lumber Liquidators Earl Anthony Medford Classic at Lava Lanes in Medford, Ore., Jan. 9-13. This week's event marks the seventh consecutive season Lava Lanes has hosted a Denny's PBA Tour event, tied with Taylor Lanes in Taylor, Mich., Spectrum Lanes in Wyoming, Mich., and Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley, Calif., for the longest streak of any current host center. Sean Rash (pictured right) will look to become the first bowler to successfully defend a title at Lava Lanes.

The Denny's PBA Tour returns from a two-week break this week to ring in the New Year with the 2008 ConstructionJobs.com Championship at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev. The Tour returns to the NBS for the second consecutive season after a three-year hiatus with the season's 10th event from Jan. 2-6. Lefty Patrick Allen will be defending his title as he went 14-0 and defeated PBA Hall of Famers Pete Weber and Walter Ray Williams Jr. in the finals en route to the 2007 H&R Block Classic title last season.

The ninth event of the 2007-08 Denny's PBA Tour and the final event of the first half takes place this week at Shamrock Lanes in Spartanburg, S.C., with the 2007 Spartanburg Classic, Dec. 12-16. The live ESPN-televised finals will take place Sunday, Dec. 16 at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium at 1 p.m. EST. This marks the first-ever Denny's PBA Tour event in the state of South Carolina. The Tour was invited to Spartanburg because Denny's, a PBA sponsor since early 2005 and the PBA Tour's title sponsor since October 2005, bases its headquarters in the South Carolina town.

The eighth event of the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour takes place this week at AMF Country Club Lanes in Baltimore, with the 2007 Lumber Liquidators Championship, Dec. 5-9. The event, which started Wednesday with the Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round, features a round robin match play format and a special prime-time, eight-bowler championship round. The finals will be taped at 1 p.m. Sunday and will air tape-delayed on ESPN from 8-10 p.m. EST.

The seventh event of the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour and the fourth and final 2007 PBA Women’s Series event take place this week at Spectrum Lanes in Wyoming, Mich., with the 2007 Great Lakes Classic, Nov. 28-Dec. 2. The event, which starts Wednesday with the Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round, features a single elimination match play format, with the top four men and top two women advancing to the live ESPN-televised finals, Sunday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. EST on ESPN.

Walter Ray Williams Jr. (r.) maintained his lead in the 2007-08 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year award race thanks to a fourth consecutive Round of 8 appearance last week. Sean Rash is tied for second with his USBC Masters win giving him 24 points instead of the 16 winners earn in standard events. With his win last week, Michael Haugen Jr. moved into fifth. Williams is the No. 1 in the Point ranking and is also the Tour's Average leader (234.19). Due to his 100,000 payday at the Master, Rash sits atop the Earnings list with $110,300. Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (l.) leads the PBA Women Series in all three major statistical categories.

The fourth event of the 2007-08 Denny's PBA Tour takes place at AMF Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga, N.Y., with the 2007 Etonic Championship, Nov. 7-11. Pete Weber will look to successfully defend the title he won at AMF Thruway Lanes last season when he captured his 33rd career Denny's PBA Tour title, earning the victory over local favorite Doug Kent. This week's event also features the second of four PBA Women's Series events following last week's debut in Taylor, Mich.

The first regular season event of the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour takes place this week with the 2007 Motor City Classic at Taylor Lanes in Taylor, Mich. The event starts Wednesday, Oct. 31 with the first Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round of the season and ends with the final four bowlers competing for the $25,000 top prize, Sunday, Nov. 4 live at 1 p.m. EST on ESPN. This week’s event has special meaning as it also marks the debut of the PBA Women’s Series, a special four-event mini-tour featuring 16 of the greatest female bowlers in the world.