Diamond Billiards, owner of the rights to the Derby City Classic has entered into a three year contract with Horseshoe Southern Indiana - The Corydon Democrat - 1/20/2010

2,000 pool players will be in Duluth for the Minnesota Operators of Music and Entertainment's 30 anniversary event - The Duluth News Tribune - 2/5/2010

One of billiards greats, Efren Reyes is 57 and considered to be at the top of his game - The Palm Beach Post - 10/11/2010

Amateur Pool Association's World Championship was recognized by Guiness World Records as the world's largest pool tournament - The Enterprise Ledger - 8/6/2017

The World's Professional Billiards and Snooker Association has announced an immediate investigation into the "unusually high number of bets" being placed on Marcus Campbell at the inaugural World Shoot Out Tournament in Blackpool. - Sunday Telegraph - 1/30/2011

Minutes from Valparaiso board meeting in the 1860s - Required $50 ($3,800 in 2025$) license for a "Ball Alley Billiard table or other instruments of games of chance" - The Times - 2/12/2011

England's Darren Appleton, Hall of Famer, winner of the last 2 US Open 9 Ball Championship in Chesapeake, VA - Daily Sentinel - 12/6/2011

Simonis files suit against cloth manufacturer Championship over attack adds - Chicago Tribune - 12/21/2011

A match between Joe Jogia and Mathew Selt in Blackpool is being investigated by the games governing body due to unusual betting activity.  The World Professional Snooker and Billiards Association says the match will go on as scheduled - The Daily Telegraph - 1/25/2012

Shane Van Boening defeated Darren Appleton to become the US Open One Pocket champion - Rapid City Journal - 5/17/2012

Shane Van Boening was top earner in billiards in 2011, earning $160,000 and has been ranked in the top 5 for years - Rapid City Journal - 7/1/2012

Snooker's Stephen Lee's appeal against the suspension he is serving has been dismissed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.  Lee challenged the ban imposed on him by the WPBSA while it investigates suspicious betting patterns in his Premier League snooker match with John Higgins on Oct. 11th. - The Daily Telegraph 10/25/2012

The producers of "9 Ball" are having a special showing at the Sovereign Majestic Theatre.  The drama is about the competitive world of women's professional billiards - Republican and Herald - 1/2/2013

Brunswick history traced back to 1845 in Cincinnati.  A Swiss immigrant made a billiard table - The Palm Beach Post - 2/10/2013

Vancouver - billiard clubs continue their decline, pools halls dropping from 20 to 10 - The Vancouver Sun - 3/2/2013

Stepen Lee, given a 12-year suspension by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association after being found guilty of deliberately losing frames or matches, including the World Championship - The Daily Telegraph - 9/26/2013

"After a while, the straight pool virtues - patience, steadiness and stamina - gave way to nine-ball virtues of - boldness in risk taking and shot making.  Nine-balls higher rate of visual action, with ball flying all over the place, stakes changing hands at a quick pace, made straight pool look like a chore - The Boston Globe - 1/3/2014

Ewa "The Striking Viking" Mataya Laurance - "Drawing a parallel to chess, billiards motivates players to contemplate offense and defense at the same time in the resulting shot, making it a very intelligent game to tackle - Sun-News - 8/29/2014

Allen Hopkins "Hall of Famer) - "Steve Cook was probably the best one-pocket player in the world from 1976 until the mid-1980s - The Lima News - 10/15/2014

Shane Van Boening wins his 3rd straight US Open - Telegraph and Argus - 10/22/2014

Mark Twain - "The game of billiards has destroyed me sweet disposition - The Portland Forecaster - 1/7/2015

Shane Van Boening went undefeated (5-0) to win the CSI Bar Table Championship in Reno, Nevada - he won both the Nine-Ball and 10-Ball titles.  There were 149 participants in the Nine-Ball and 105 in the Ten-Ball tournaments - Rapid City Journal - 2/22/2015

Hall of Famer - "Machine Gun" Lou Butera died - complications of Parkinson's disease - Citizens' Voice - 7/2/2015

Steve Cook elected to the "One Pocket Hall of Fame" - The Lima News - 10/15/2014

Mike Immonen of Finland took first place in the Turning Stone Classic XXV-9 Ball open winning $8,000.  Field of 128 players was part of the Joss Northeast 9-Ball tour.  The total prize was $41,400 - Daily Sentinel - 1/16/2016

Here is the thing: with nary an exception, we don't recognize that we are ordinary, most of us think we are above average.  Which means most pool players are potential pool hustler victim - Tampa Bay Times - 2/4/2016

The WPBA - "We couldn't field a 16-player field and now we have a 48-player field with a waiting list - Lansing State Journal - 4/10/2016

Vicki Paski, Hall of Famer, today at 60, she is the last charter member of the Women's World Professional Billiards Association still playing on the tour - Lansing State Journal - 4/10/2016

APA sanctions the world's largest amateur pool league with more than 250,000 members - The Enterprise Ledger - 8/6/2017

Shane Van Boening won the $8,000 first place prize for the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour at the Turning Stone Resort Casino - Daily Sentinel - 9/5/2017

Shave Van Boening, Hall of Famer, named to the USA Mosconi Cup team for the 10th time - Rapid City Journal - 9/13/2017

Danny DiLiberto - Hall of Famer - By the end of his career he'd won 9 won championship title in all 4 of pool's major disciplines - The Buffalo News - 11/1/2017

In any other sport, the best players of the world are millionaires.  In 2006 when Ronnie Alcano won the World-Nine Ball Championship he won $100,000.  Last year the winner, Carlo Biando, got $60,000 -The Gazette - 1/19/2018

Chirs "The Magician" Melling defeats Canada's John Mora to win the America's prestigious nine-ball tournament - Keighley New - 2/1/2018

16 of the world's top players showed up at the "Junior Morris Memorial Tournament in Wichita Falls.  Junior was a 3-time winner of the World 9-Ball championship - Times Record News - 6/25/2018

Efren Reyes "The Magician" is on a farewell tour.  He plans to return to Philippines and retire from active competition - The Republican - 10/6/2018

After 25 years, Yale Billiards, at 950 Yale Avenue, Bobby Hilton decided to move to a new 7,000 sq. ft. space at 169 N. Plains Industrial Road, complete with 16 - 9" long Brunswick tables - Record-Journal - 1/2/2019

Brunswick and Balke was founded in 1845.  The original product was carriages, but upon opening his machine shop he had a deep interest in billiards and felt that making billiard tables would be more profitable - Public Opinion - 7/7/2019

Van Boening's Mosconi Cup team repeats their win over Europe - Rapid City Journal - 11/30/2019

Skylar Woodward took the MVP for the Mosconi Cup.  Woodward is ranked #47 by the World Pool-Billiard Association and #3 by the Billiards Congress of America - The Paducah Sun - 12/5/2019