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For your holiday season idle time reading, here's my tiny evergreen annual gift to AZB-ers, an exceptional 9-page article that will be new to some AZBers and a very enjoyable re-read for many others. It's from a 1970 Playboy about the famous Johnston City "Hustlers Jamboree" excitingly and...

Her eloquence, pool-savvy, life wisdom -- and always-positive & factual insider reporting and commentary have illuminated and entertained AZB newbies and long timers for two decades (since October 17, 2004). You go girl, for many more years. Arnaldo ~ A major fan of excellent writing and...

What a treat to see them all again. This is a real piece of pocket billiards history! Aired on ABC Wide World of Sports to very high TV viewership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNBZz4lMrg&t=119s Courtesy of, and many thanks to Max Eberle. Arnaldo ~ No doubt it's been AZB-posted before...

What a reviving shot in the arm this film gave to players, room owners, and potential new-interest players. Dyer's beautifully crafted 4-page article from Billiards Digest fully details the tidal wave of worldwide awareness and player-influx that the film's 1961 release led to...

Enjoy: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/if-you-could-go-back-in-time-and-watch-just-one-player.290825/ Arnaldo ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Earl's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EarlStricklandWorldChampion/about Earl's official website: https://earlstrickland.com/ Who doesn't like to see a world-class player harvesting back a few shekels -- during his Golden Years -- from decades of contributing his unique excitement...

At the I:22:50 point of the below 1986 Sigel-Garcia match (which had $40,000 first-place prize money) you'll see Mike scratch on the break -- then seconds later -- expert commentator, Jim Rempe says: "One-Ball goes down" and the ref is seen pushing the One into a pocket. I don't remember the...

If you didn't see it, this was last Sunday's exciting, even scary "60 Minutes" report on present and future capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. The single most fascinating episode of the CBS Sunday nights program "60 Minutes" that I've ever seen during my 55 years of watching it (the show...

. . . and not as a video-recorded Efren: I predict that by the year 3000 -- a living hologram -- an imperishable life-endowed hologram of Efren Reyes with all his abilities will be brought in by gamblers to triumph over the AI (Artificial Intelligence) android robots who are winning all the...

Charlie, fondly remembered by all pool fans, passed away four years ago. All knew of his long and important relationship with Willie Mosconi, but few were aware of this aspect of his background...

I just happened on this beautifully written gem. About a 15-minute read; 25 minutes if you're savoring every nugget, as I was. Plenty of tasty player-to-player human interest morsels. And never seen elsewhere, often raucous, even hilarious reaction quotes of various elite players as they...

Reportedly, (per Freddie Bentivegna, Bill Staton, Grady Matthews (and dozens of other top players cited below) Harold Worst played every cue sport at a world-class level and never lost a tournament or action match during his entire all-too-brief playing career (died at age 37 -- stunning...

Hope these will brighten more than a few of your days: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. "The...

They're considering a service called GroupWorks. I'm personally a bit uneasy with supplying any outside entity with a list of 70 club members' email addresses. Sometimes (just my opinion) the services of "free" group-email facilitators may not be free if unwanted problems or intrusions accrue...

Written by renowned billiards historian, Mike Shamos some years ago for the Billiards Congress of America. I'm posting the link to it here for the enjoyment of newer AZBers and any players who've never seen the article (or would like to re-read it): https://bca-pool.com/page/39 Arnaldo...

Mike Sigel (about 4 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOAEt0dqfBc Kim Davenport (about 3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_IdjPLQjA Reed Pierce (about 3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFTi-07HRM Then Davenport, Sigel, Pierce reminisce in-depth for 24 minutes...

US Cornhole leadership is working diligently to get it deeply organized internationally, then proposing it for recognition by the Olympics Committee. Absolutely bizarre to think that it may be played in future Olympics before billiards makes it into the competitions. The recognized world...

Sigel -- expertly commentating -- can hardly believe the astonishing shot! Excitedly exclaims: "That's the most amazing shot I ever saw." Worth watching 23 year-old Johnny totally in the zone to the end as he closes out this tournament-winning match minutes later. What a talent he is...

What Kid D. and his road partner learned at this clandestinely-arranged meeting was a complete game-changer that enabled their profitable road career: https://tinyurl.com/3uj8f2jc Totally factual article, colorfully written by one of the best-ever sports writers. Enjoy. Arnaldo...

Intriguing and abundantly talented folks in a wide variety of different ways. All of them as wild about the game as we are. Eric "Fatboy" Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjrPd_1O85g Bob Jewett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmFhvSXoro John Brumback...