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Thanks, Eric. Let me now when you are headed my way.

I'm not convinced here. Yes, Fedor and Josh are better than they used to be, maybe better at 9ball than anything we've ever seen over the green felt, but, based on the eye test, I do not agree that the Top 10 as a group are playing significantly better than they used to, and without naming...

I read Rotella's "Golf is not a Game of Perfect" and absolutely loved it. I would highly recommend it to any pool player struggling with his/her mental game.

A productive thread for sure that underscores that nobody is quite sure what constitutes a pool professional.

Maybe, but one guy who felt the distinction to be very important was golfing legend Bobby Jones, who said that one who plays a sport solely for love of the game is an amateur, and he considered it an honor to labeled as such. In my view, anyone who persistently gives their best at something...

We've discussed this before on the forum. For starters, one can argue that there is no such thing as a pro in our sport, but let's say we are talking about pro speed, an arbitrary matter of personal perception. For the men, my idea of pro speed starts at about Fargo 730. As many on AZB have...

Possibly Kubrick's most underrated film.

Thackeray is one of the finest writers that ever put a pen to paper. Vanity Fair is, of course, his masterpiece, but if you enjoy Thackeray, you will also greatly enjoy "The Luck of Barry Lyndon."

Sorry for the loss of your friend, Dave.

Piecing together the game's history is no easy task, but hints pop up in the strangest places. For example, in Gustave Flaubert's literary classic Madame Bovary, published in 1856, the growing preference for tight equipment was noted. In Part II, Chapter I, the following passage appears...

Even though I do not much enjoy watching Chinese 8ball, they seem to understand that without really tight pockets, the game does not provide a sufficient challenge for the most elite cueists.

Ah, yes, I attended both but got them muddled. Really a shame that the World Pool Series did not last.

Nicely done, sir. Being an area ref is not the easiest job in the world. There is a wise old saying about refs that "if nobody notices you, then you are probably doing a good job."

Yes, he has been inconsistent for the length of his career, but when Kaci has it going, he is a very hard guy to beat. Wish him luck at Super Billiards and at the WNT majors.

Unless you are referring to the way they raised the level of play, which is undeniable, I would not agree with the suggestion that Efren and Earl took the game of pool to new heights. The Color of Money match they played in the late 1990s came shortly before pool's greatest ever fall from...

For a two-minute video, this was pretty good. Mike Shamos has observed that the use of the mace in pool's earliest days enabled both men and women to play it. As it fell outside the boundaries of propriety for a woman to bend down over a table, fewer women could play it once cue-sticks replaced...

Filler dug himself out of a hole this year at Derby City. Trailing Yerry Calderon 1-0 in racks and 7 to -1 in ball count in the race to three, Filler took on a two railer and parlayed it into nine and out, which led to victory. The best players will always wow us.

Sylver Ochoa ran an eight and out on Earl Strickland at Derby City (?2010?) in which most of the balls were in the kitchen. Earl just scratched his head, believing he had just seen the impossible.

Wow, that's one hell of a field. With the McDermott Open and Super Billiards Expo back- to-back, several of the elite chose to make the trip. This is progress with respect to scheduling. Having two WNT ranking events just a three hour drive apart in consecutive weeks makes life a little...

Where can the brackets for this event be found?