Recent content by SkipM624

If you were going to organize a tournament for regional-tour-level players to draw the best field, and assuming you’re going to adequately ‘get the word out,’ where would you put it? City and state (except when it’s obvious, like ‘Boston’).

My Memory Vault is randomly selective in terms of what I can access. I do know that I got out of the US Army in '72 and started college on the GI Bill at a Massachusetts State College the next year. I doubt I took that computer course in my first year and it could have been the next year. If it...

Dear AtLarge, I would like to thank you for correcting my math error in my report on the International Straight Pool Open. At first, I couldn't find the error, even after it was pointed out to me. I was stuck on 6 x 5 = 30 x 7 = 210. And then, miracle of miracles, I discovered a lesson I...

Hey, billb, Tour Director Herman Parker has been informed of this and will be submitting a full schedule to AZ soon. From that point, events of the Q City 9-Ball Tour and related TOP (The Open Players) Tour will appear on AZ's calendar. When that is done, you'll be able to search for the tour...

I have searched the proverbial 'high and low' for the brackets which, I was informed, could be found on the Predator ProSeries Web site. Unfortunately, when you arrive at the site, there's no one to ask about where exactly the brackets are. I found scores all right, but no brackets. Anyone find...

At the time they played their match, Kennedy was ranked one number higher than Delawder; 9 & 8 I think it was. So in the race to 9, Delawder started with one. Don’t know the formula, but these numbers are related to player Fargo rates.

Otherwise known as the “can anyone stop Gorst” bet. I’m hoping for the sake of watching it happen that one of the semifinalists breaks through, preferably Zielinski. But I don’t know. Who does? I’ll hold on to my $200. TCTC - too close to call.

Gorst is the proverbial beast in these three matches. I was talking to junior competitor Joey Tate yesterday, right after he’d won a loss-side match and after congratulating him, he said “Yeah, thanks, I wish I’d played like this when I was playing X (don’t remember which opponent came to his...

Just wondering whether this 'tune' has changed.

Baseball is an interesting comparison, which highlights some of the issues when its current success is placed next to pool's relative lack of success. Like pool, baseball's early days did not, could not benefit from the visual medium of television. Baseball games did however get a leg-up on mass...

Orton's Pool Room Hey all, from Wilmington, where Orton's Pool Room enjoys something of a legendary reputation, based on its history, and the 'fact' that it's said to be haunted. Bartenders literally greet the ghost when they show up for work, because, they'll tell you, if they don't, they...

Who's it going to be? * ** Wouldn't want to be the person making the difficult choices about who will be on Team USA this year, although I imagine SVB to be a no-brainer, in spite of his underwhelming performances in the past. One down, four to go. I think there's a certain "Any Given Sunday"...

Call me, so we can get a report together on this tour stop.

Lewis Paul "Butch" Jones died on Tuesday, March 10. He had suffered a minor stroke in January and had been hospitalized at the University of Arkansas Medical Center for five weeks between December 27 and February 2. He was moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center, where he was expected...

Dan. . could you call me about the tournament? Would like to put together a report, but I'll need bracket info. . Skip