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Or maybe skate across. These days you never know.

My wife and I have just over 10,000 books in our house, including many on pool, but they're in book cases where they belong, and never on the pool table. Some spaces are truly sacred!

Is there a free live stream of DCC nine ball today? If so, could someone please provide the URL for it? Thanks.

When it came to night clubs, dese was da good old days:

Sorry, I meant without a subscription, as on YouTube. Not necessarily right away, but at some point in the not too distant future.

Are we ever going to be able to get full length videos of the last two rounds of the Bigfoot? Accu-Stats did an infinitely better job of DCC than xpool.

To that I'd only add that many road players back then had to use house cues in order to promote the stall. And some of those house cues weren't exactly straight.

In Spring Training of 1962, Danny DiLiberto won a similar bet against Roger Maris that he could throw a golf ball through the uprights of a goal post 100 yards away.

Funny, you just mentioned one of my first sports heroes, Neil Johnston. Since Washington didn't then have an NBA team and my mom was from Philly, I attached myself to the Warriors in a year where they went something like 12 and 57. But IIRC Johnston still led the league in scoring. One night...

In a way I compare pool to my other favorite sport: Baseball. I started following baseball way back in 1952, when I was all of 8 years old. Back then, with only 8 teams in each league and no interleague play, it was easy to keep up with nearly all the players. And except for the World Series...

Stu, I think you have to distinguish between the sort of players you'd find in tournaments and the sort of players you'd find in action rooms. Alex is certainly as entertaining as any golden age player you would've found in tournaments BITD, but once you got into gambling matches that's when...

Now here would be a team match that would put asses in the seats: One team decked out in tuxedos, the other team in wifebeaters.

You literally have to go back 100 years to find pool featured in the sports pages of major American newspapers. And when was the last time we had pool matches on ESPN? I love Derby City's Bigfoot Challenge, but other than that I usually wait for the last few rounds to watch anything else. And...

This is also what keeps me interested at 81, and with luck for years to come. Just in the last year I've loved watching the emergence of Neuhausen and the rise of Atencio, who's fast becoming my favorite player. That doesn't take away anything from the great players of the past, like Buddy...

Tournament play is infinitely better these days, with far more events, an international field, better equipment, a variety of games and widely available streaming. OTOH I'm more partial to the days when there were dozens of pool rooms in nearly every big metro area, and in many of them you...