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Jason Belmonte on what his COVID-19 pandemic layoff taught him after a winless 2021, his singular goal for 2022, and his innovative idea for the PBA League

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, December 13, 2021 8:00 am
Jason Belmonte on what his COVID-19 pandemic layoff taught him after a winless 2021, his singular goal for 2022, and his innovative idea for the PBA League
Jason Belmonte after winning the 2020 PBA World Championship in March 2020. He has not won a PBA Tour title since. Photo by PBA.
Fans, pundits and players thinking Jason Belmonte is washed up, or even just no longer the best after a winless 2021, should consider that the last time the powerful 2-hander went winless was 2016 and he followed that year with a 4-title, 3-major-win Player of the Year campaign in 2017. It’s been about 21 months since Belmonte won the 2020 PBA World Championship as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down the world, but it seems a lot longer. Relative to most of his fellow PBA...