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Agreed. Aside from his genuine-or-not likability, how can anyone think that a positive story about a pool world champion with a disability is not engaging content? Not to be too mercenary, but the fact of Shane's hearing loss was an asset in this story.

It was a positive story with appeal to a wide audience (otherwise 60 Minutes would never have presented it). It has the potential to attract the notice of other content-hungry outlets, broadcast, print and online. That in turn could have some useful impact of the sort pool hasn't enjoyed since...

I thought he undercut it a little and that it might have jawed even without the skid.

I wonder. Consider that when you play good position in 14.1, you really don't have to move the cue ball around very much and you're in charge of your position on the next ball. Compare that to any one of those Mosconi races we just saw. The outgoing player has played safe, or missed and left...

Updating your own Facebook page is about as easy as it gets. Why wouldn't Matchroom bother with something so ridiculously simple? BTW, I think maybe just once or twice, yeah I think a time or two, people on this forum have made suggestions about how they'd like to see Mathroom improve things...

8-6T Good. I give US the edge in this matchup. Should they win, it's Sky vs Alcaide in singles with Sky coming off a win and David off a loss. I like Sky's chances there and that--would tie it up.

If Matchroom is as serious as they say about promoting pool, they should have someone streaming commentary and results during important events like Mosconi. Not visual, just texted in close-to-realtime to the Matchbook Facebook page or some other address. ESPN does this and more during NFL...

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The general tone of the moment is that US has already lost. I say stay all in with them til the last ball has dropped and after the last ball has dropped, whatever the outcome. Most important, it ain't over and anything can happen in races to 5. Sometimes even an old war horse can deliver in the...

Doesn't it look like a pretty basic runout?

What would be the point of playing safe if he already had ball in hand? Don't want to be unfair to Earl as he may have seen something I don't see (probably did). But this decision looks like either a failure of nerve or a failure of cognition.

This was my assessment before play started. Europe too strong. I still hope I'm wrong and, yeah, anything can happen in races to 5. But... SVB and Shaw pretty equal. Woodward and Filler pretty equal. Styer maybe not as strong as Alcaide. Dominguez not as strong as Sanchez Ruiz. Strickland not...

Sincere thanks to you folks who are updating scores for us. Hanging on your every post.

Does anyone seriously think that Shaw is a bigger primadonna or a-hole than Strickland? I happen to love watching Earl and would love to see him come alive and carry the US over the line in Vegas. But he deserves to have his face rubbed in it a thousand times over given the way he has behaved to...

I see "first team to win 11 matches wins" when I google it, but with 5 matches played Day One and normally 5 on Day Two, it could be over first thing on Day Three. Can someone clarify? Thanks.

My name is Cesar Morales.

Call shot eliminates slop.

I suspect the more discerning ex-PBTers in that photo are already asking who owns all those matches that are going to be digitized and how they as individuals stand to make money from them. What, if anything, did it take to get Sigel, Davenport and Pierce to associate their names with this...

Re: ball colors. Seeing better is not the same as understanding better. They want to make it easier for the audience to understand what's going on on their tv screens? They achieve the exact opposite, because the audience is overwhelmingly people who play pool with the traditional colored balls...

Thanks to all, esp. Dr. Dave. I've been made a believer. Imagine a guy, average build, wearing, say, round toed brogues, kicking a soccer ball (with his toe) at the point we would call right side english. The ball squirts left. Then another guy, same height and weight, and wearing the same size...