Billiards
The Silent Cue Ball: Unmasking the Self-Deceiving Sports Analysis Industry
Szewczyk Wins Second World 10-Ball Title in Ho Chi Minh City: A Verdict for the Table Controller
Ali Carter reveals surprise phone call from Ronnie O'Sullivan's father during cancer treatment
From Higgins 2026 to the 2026 Ban on 10 Chinese Cueists: The Data Gap and the Integrity Problem of Professional Snooker
Szewczyk Wins Second World 10-Ball Title in Ho Chi Minh City: A Verdict for the Table ControllerIn the deciding rack of the fourth set, Eklent Kaci led 2-0. Wojciech Szewczy...
Ali Carter reveals surprise phone call from Ronnie O'Sullivan's father during cancer treatmentIn the summer of 2026, Ali Carter sat in a London clinic and heard a doctor s...
The Silent Cue Ball: Unmasking the Self-Deceiving Sports Analysis IndustryIn 28 years of investigating sports finance and covering billiards across the...
From Higgins 2026 to the 2026 Ban on 10 Chinese Cueists: The Data Gap and the Integrity Problem of Professional SnookerIn April 2026, at a hotel in Kyiv, John Higgins — then the reigning world...
Vietnam's Shifted Diamond: Decoding the Tactics That Left Indonesia Helpless at My DinhOn the night of March 21, 2026, My Dinh Stadium exploded as Vietnam crushed...
Crowley and Brown Fall in Deciders: The Line Between Explosive Break-Building and Frame-Closing NerveLeone Crowley stood one shot away from the biggest win of his career. At the...
Three Cues, One Trap: When Billiards Analysis Begins with Naming the Discipline CorrectlyIn the winter of 2026, while still sitting in the commentary booth for VTC's...
Vietnamese Billiards in the Big Season: The Silent Boundary Between Carom and PoolThe yellow ball hesitates on the third cushion, the cue floating in the air...
Vietnamese Billiards: Discipline Identification Is the Prerequisite of Any AnalysisWhen a fan messages my page asking whether this player has a good safety inde...
Chalkgate in Da Nang: How Black Turning Point Chalk Became the Main Character of the 120-Rack Marathon Between Shaw and Duong Quoc HoangOn the second night at Peri Pool Arena in Da Nang, I counted what the...
Chalkgate in Da Nang: Jayson Shaw, Duong Quoc Hoang and the 60-56 Scoreline Everyone Is Reading WrongI counted fourteen times. Fourteen times across roughly two and a half hours,...
The Three-Cushion Geometry of Nguyen Quoc Nghiep: The Blueprint That Took Vietnamese Billiards to the SummitThe moment I replayed most from the world final in Ankara in November 2026 wa...
Billiards Is Not Just One Name: The Discipline-Confusion Disease in Sports AnalysisOn a billiards table, worse than a missed shot is shooting on the wrong table...
Vietnamese Billiards and the Data Gap: When the Scoreboard Does Not Tell the Whole StoryIn a notebook I keep on a quarter-final of three-cushion in Binh Duong, the...
Chinese Billiards and the Lesson of Position: When the Table Speaks Before the NamesI remember an evening in Beijing when the final of a Chinese 8-ball event...
World Billiards: One Word, Four Rulebooks and the Power Vacuum Nobody Wants to FillIn June 2026, the WPBSA announced sanctions against ten Chinese cueists over...
