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Snooker: Does the rise of 'jaw-dropper' Trump herald game's second coming?
Wednesday 04 May 2011
Boy-band haircut, breathtaking potting and sense of humour fuel hopes 21-year-old can help revitalise the sport
Snooker: Fate starts to smile on the Leicester Jester
Sunday 09 January 2011
After overcoming family heartache, Selby is now ready to master O'Sullivan
Snooker: Hearn uses power to plot transformation of the baize
Saturday 30 October 2010
Power Snooker promises glitz, glamour and fast potting as the game chases a new television audience
Matt Gatward: Bright's dull repartee has viewers seeing red, you know...
Monday 27 September 2010
View From The Sofa: The League Cup Show/Snooker, BBC1/BBC2
Snooker: O'Sullivan ends White fightback
Friday 24 September 2010
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the battle of the game's great entertainers as he knocked out veteran Jimmy White to reach the last 16 of the World Open in Glasgow yesterday.
Snooker: O'Sullivan considered spurning 147 break in protest at bonus pay-out of 'only £4,000'
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Ronnie O'Sullivan had to be persuaded to pot the black to secure a 147 break at the World Open in Glasgow yesterday after learning there was no bonus prize for a maximum.
Matt Gattward: Tales of baize and booze in Hurricane's moving homage
Monday 06 September 2010
View From The Sofa: Alex Higgins: The People's Champion, BBC 2
Sport on TV: Higgins led way in crying game as Davis wept over spilt beer
Sunday 05 September 2010
This week the snooker world will cast its bleary eye over John Higgins as he attends a hearing into gambling allegations. Another News of the World sting; perhaps his slow, deliberate style of play might help to shore up the Pakistan middle-order. But while the framed Higgins waits for total clearance, his namesake Alex could have faced all sorts of insinuations about match-fixing, such was his often chaotic approach to the biggest games and his obsession with gambling.
Snooker: White tribute as Higgins laid to rest
Tuesday 03 August 2010
The coffin of snooker player Alex Higgins WAs carried by his son Jordan and the former snooker player Jimmy White (back) from his family home in Belfast, Northern Ireland yesterday.
Snooker legend Alex Higgins 'struggled with fame'
Monday 02 August 2010
Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins struggled to cope with the fame and fortune thrust upon him at a young age, a memorial service heard today.
James Lawton: Farewell to the Hurricane who swept his sport into modern era
Monday 26 July 2010
We should remember Higgins for transforming snooker, not tales of drink and anarchy
Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins is dead
Sunday 25 July 2010
Former world champion loses battle with throat cancer at 61.
O'Sullivan backs radical snooker revamp
Friday 23 July 2010
Ronnie O'Sullivan believes Power Snooker is the future of the sport and claims he is "bored" with the World Championship format.
Snooker: Amazing Davis targets the last four after turning on the old magic to shock Higgins
Monday 26 April 2010
Memories of 1985 come flooding back as 52-year-old records greatest ever upset
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