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    RIP Brendan Crockett and his brother Jeff.

    Markus Hofstaetter blog http://blog.markus-hofstaetter.at/
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    post billiards age

    just found this interesting bit of history. enjoy. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-post-billiards-age/
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    World junior championship

    Brendan and Ko on stream in 15 min http://www.cuesportfever.com
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    World junior championship

    Here we go, they did a complete redraw.
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    World junior championship

    I jumped the gun before they posted the knockout draw.
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    World junior championship

    Brendan plays Pin Chung Ko and Sergio plays Daniel
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    World junior championship

    Quarter finals tonight. Brendan and Sergio play euros and if they both win will play each other to go to the finals. 8 boys left. Taylor lost to a Japanese girl who then sent kamila the defending champ home. 4 girls left. All quarters tonight at 7, about two hours.
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    World junior championship

    From Ian Andersen Gold Reef City Casino & Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa DAY 2 The double elimination stages were completed today, and tomorrow will see the commencement of single elimination with 16 boys, 8 girls and 8 wheelchair athletes making up the fields. Wheelchair division...
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    World junior championship

    USA has four boys left and two BCA girls as well. single elimination starts after one more round Zombie jet lag (it's 20 hours flying to get here) and surreal conditions (the tournament is in Soweto a mile from the stadium) has not stopped our kids from showing the flag. All the other...
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    World junior championship

    You're right, I must have misunderstood your comments. I'm sure the only reason April won was that your girl played badly. It had nothing to do with her own ability.
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    World junior championship

    Really? I seem to recall that April lost in the finals the two previous years to Taylor Reynolds, who is also in joburg. April is a solid player who just beat the reigning world champion coming from behind. I think that says as much about her as your comments say about you....
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    World junior championship

    April had to recover from a bad call that handed her opponent a game. Refs here are enforcing a three balls pocketed or across the head string on the break rule. An illegal break allows the opponent to give the table back or shoot but it's not a foul. Ref gave Ludmila BIH and she ran out. Same...
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    World junior championship

    US u14 champ April Larsen just beat Ludmila Khodajeva in the opening round. Ludmila won worlds last year defeating the prior years champ and has been expected to defend her title. April came back from 4-1 to win 6-5. Little lady with huge heart! Internet here in jo'burg very sketchy, and people...
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    Pro Pool players courting disaster

    it's so simple Not to seem completely naive, but it sure seems like the new guy in town should figure out a way to work around the established tournaments, which have required substantial and irrevocable investments to reserve space, get tables, and so on... where BB is in its own facility...
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    U.S Open Escrow?

    location of US Open Escrow found it under the bed….
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