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Imagine that sometime in the future, cue sports is enjoying the same level of mass appeal as golf, football and baseball. A new TV network called The Billiards Channel is in the works. As a TV network executive, what kind of original content/shows (that is, excluding regular tournament coverage)...

As both a pool and snooker player, I could not help but observe a notable difference in the way playing equipment has advanced in both cue sports. In pool you have magic chalks, LD shafts, gloves, phenolic tips, Cyclops pool balls etc. You compare all that to what we have in snooker, and it...

Ronnie O'Sullivan just a posted a photo of him playing One-Pocket on Twitter. Apparently he's in the US right now--can someone confirm this? https://twitter.com/ronnieo147/status/748922845535858691 "This one pocket is the best game I've played in years. Think it would go down well with cue...

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Harold%20Worst%20Pool%20Billiards%20the%20Best.htm Reading the above article, I am amazed by how Harold Worst was able to allegedly play the three main cue sports disciplines at world-class level at such a young age and over a short period of time. This made me...

https://youtu.be/VPGOmWGmHb4 Just wanna share a match involving Efren vs Marco Fu. For those not familiar with snooker, Marco Fu is a top 16 player and has just beaten Anthony McGill in the ongoing World Snooker Championships. The match was held in Taguig, Philippines on April 9th. Some other...

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/snooker/383524/ With the continuing rise in popularity of snooker worldwide, isn't it about time that the US and the Philippines, two countries in which pool is the dominant cue sport, start to embrace snooker? If I was Barry Hearn, I'd...

I've been watching a lot of Ronnie's matches, and the most peculiar thing I notice with his technique is not his noticeable elbow drop and non-parallel cueing, but his rather unorthodox eye rhythm. It seems that at the moment of strike, Ronnie looks at the cue ball instead of the object ball...