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Still, you made an uplifting post, so it's all good. In addition, this match introduced the long race format to most of the world. At...

Nice post. I have no idea exactly when the match occurred (I know it was in 1986) but if the match was on May 4, 1996, as you...

While we're talking about playing pool, there's probably dozens of professions that a young person may want to go into that may be...

... so this is what it's like to be part of an NPR thread. The theme to which many subscribe seems to be "If you are young and show any...

Agreed. For many events, including the majors, there can be little, or even no, record of the players that played and did not cash.

Yeah, Joe was a friend of mine. He is considered among the best junior players of all time (a junior in what I believe was the late...

In 2023 he lost to Jayson Shaw in round 5, Roland Garcia in round 6, at Derby. Maybe that is what you were thinking about. In the 2024...

Thanks for the assistance. Yes, now it's coming back. That Shaw match was at Derby. Mike did, however, play the 2024 US Open at...

I believe this is in error. I believe that Mike played in the US Open in either 2023 or 2024 but failed to cash. I remember chatting...

Agreed. It doesn't take that many ranking points to be an auto-qualifier for Team USA. One good finish, like when Tyler Styer came 3rd...

Yeah, Tony was one hell of a player who had a very big break. He was probably never a top five player, but often a top ten. I got to...

In Washington the only balls that were spotted after a scratch were "2 before the money". So if you scratched on the 6 ball it stayed...

I'm sure many will remember the TV show from the mid-1970s called the "Six Million Dollar Man." It was predicated on the idea that it...

I was an assistant pro at a golf course Rickie Fowler played regularly when he was a junior. Everyone knew he would be on the PGA tour...

This is wonderful news, as to this point, just the opposite has been true. The Mosconi points race runs from November to November, so...