Video: 1996 US Open $25,000 winner prize. Reyes v Rodney Morris race-to-11

arnaldo

arnaldo

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Video length is 1 hour, 2 minutes. I just digitized, edited and Youtubed this 9-ball race-to-11 final from my 20 year-old VHS videotape made during the original 90-minute 1996 telecast.

Rodney's powerhouse break, silky-smooth stroking and great cue ball control are a pleasure to watch. He's 25 years-old here, hugely talented, trying to defeat Reyes and win the title and the $25,000 prize money. Tan cloth and chalk because it features 1996 Camel tour players.

https://youtu.be/AZCxssVP-Kc

Enjoy.

Arnaldo

More videos (32 total) on my (Ray Carlton) Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxDXBU6sbgHwsBsrRQfFOLA?
 
Thanks- what a treasure trove you've got. I didn't know that ESPN aired the US Open back then.
 
westcoast said:
Thanks- what a treasure trove you've got. I didn't know that ESPN aired the US Open back then.
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Glad you're enjoying the uploads, WC.

Prime Network was the broadcaster. Prime's graphics are seen and variously mentioned by Tom throughout the program.

Arnaldo
 
I should have known someone would gingerly and irrelevantly bring that unfortunate period up. He got mixed up with a few wrong people a year *after* the win (not hard to do in some pool worlds at the time) and paid a heavy price. By all reports it was a guilt by association thing. Few among us haven't made misjudgments and bad decisions early on.
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Newspaper excerpt indicates very well that he learned from the experience:

Morris reached the sport's pinnacle in 1996, when he won the U.S. Open. But a year later, he reached life's nadir, when he was convicted on drug conspiracy charges. From 1997-2001, Morris lived in a federal prison camp in Sheridan, Ore., and said he learned many lessons through the ordeal.
"I learned to make better choices, to be careful who you trust," he said. "Now I really try to disassociate myself from that element."

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Jan/03/sp/sp09a.html

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