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	Snooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Snooker is a billiards game, played on a special table, with one white cue ball, 15 red balls and 6 balls of various colours (the 'colours').
		Perhaps the peak of this golden age was the world championship of 1985, when 18.5 million people (one third of the population of the UK) watched Dennis Taylor lift the cup after a mammoth struggle that went on well after midnight.
		Snooker is played on a 6' by 12' (about 1.83m by 3.66m) table with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sn/snooker.html (2184 words)

	World Snooker Championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The World Championship is the climax of snooker's annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points.
		The first championship was held in 1927, and the legendary Joe Davis helped to organise the event.
		Snooker then went into a period of decline, and no tournament was held between 1958 and 1963.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/w/wo/world_snooker_championship.html (739 words)

	Highest snooker break - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In snooker, a break is the total score achieved by a player in a single visit to the table.
		In that match Drago was foul snookered and chose the brown as the free ball, to score one point.
		In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett achieved a 148 against Leo Fernandez, becoming the first player to achieve a break of more than 147 in a professional match.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highest_snooker_break (378 words)

	Snooker article - Snooker billiards United Kingdom Ireland Canada Australia Thailand Hong - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There was even a comic snooker song in the pop charts: Snooker Loopy by Chas and Dave.
		The most important tournament in this category is the Benson and Hedges Masters.
		Snooker article - Snooker definition - what means Snooker
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Snooker (2207 words)

	AZBilliards.com - Snooker with Alan Morris
		The Benson and Hedges Championship is also a qualifying event for the Benson & Hedges Masters invitation event which is staged annually at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.
		The winner of the Benson and Hedges Championship, along with another wild card entrant, will join the top-16 players to compete in the Benson & Hedges Masters event, which is not only the most prestigious invitation event on the Main Tour but one of the sport's top events as a whole.
		The Benson and Hedges Championship roll of honor also includes two World Champions in Ken Doherty and Mark J. Williams, who went on to provide the Masters with one of its most memorable moments in 1998 when he came from 9 - 6 down to beat Stephen Hendry 10 - 9 on a re-spotted fl.
	www.azbilliards.com /snooker/2000-01/00bhchamps.html (697 words)

	Alex Higgins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A one-time apprentice jockey, Belfast born Higgins (46) started playing snooker at the age of 11, when one of his haunts was Belfast's Jampot Club.
		He captured the Benson and Hedges Masters in 1978 - repeated the feat in 1981 and the World Championship was to fall to him again in 1982.
		He was, with Dennis Taylor and Eugene Hughes, a member of the winning team in the world cup in 1985, 1986 and 1987 and in 1989 became the first Irish winner of the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters, defeating Stephen Hendry in an epic final.
	departments.weber.edu /wildcatlanes/billiards/rules/alexhiggins.htm (170 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| Snooker \| Benson and Hedges Masters 2002 \| Where are they now?
		Snooker players come and go, and some are better remembered than others.
		Canada was at the forefront of snooker in the 1980s and although world champion Cliff Thorburn and Kirk Stevens led the way, perhaps"Big" Bill Werbeniuk was the most fondly remembered.
		He was renowned for drinking copious amounts of alcohol and also being the first snooker player to split his trousers during a live television broadcast.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/benson_and_hedges_masters_2002/1764513.stm (839 words)

	Chris Small - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chris Small (born 26 September 1973) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
		He has never progressed beyond the last sixteen in the World Championship.
		Small is ranked 12 for the 2004/05 season, the first time he has entered the top sixteen.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chris_Small (130 words)

	Chris Small - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He never progressed beyond the last sixteen in the World Championship.
		However, by this time he had already been forced out of the 2004 World Championship, after an experimental drug to help his back caused blurred vision.
		Although this was a temporary issue, no lasting solution has been found for his spine, and his season was a disaster, ending with 8 defeats from 8 matches and a tumble down the rankings.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Small (176 words)

	SnookerUSA.com - World Of Snooker > 2002 Benson & Hedges Snooker Championship > Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Championship is also a qualifying tournament for the Benson and Hedges Masters invitation event which is staged at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.
		The winner of the Benson and Hedges Snooker Championship, along with another wild card entrant, will join the top-16 players to compete in next year's Masters which carries a total prize fund of around $1.2million.
		Higgins, nicknamed the 'Hurricane', has however now officially withdrew from the Championship as it is believed he is due to undergo major dental surgery, which has been forced on him because of the chemotherapy treatment following the removal of a cancerous lymph node in his neck.
	www.snookerusa.com /menu/worldofsnooker/02-03wsmaintour/02bhchampionship/index.shtml (643 words)

	Terry Griffiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A former postman, Griffiths had a long amateur career, winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and the English Amateur Championship in 1977 and 1978 before turning professional.
		The virtually unknown Griffiths shot to fame during the 1979 world championships.
		Interviewed after beating Eddie Charlton in a long semi-final, it suddenly dawned on him what he had done, and he said "I'm in the final now, you know!" in his broad native accent.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Terry_Griffiths (215 words)

	Alex Higgins Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alex had maintained his snooker ability throughout this period and as a nineteen year old won the Northern Ireland Amateur Championship and almost single-handed took Belfast YMCA to the British amateur team title.
		His fights with the snooker establishment were also well documented, with Alex punished with fines and bans for a myriad of offences.
		He won many other competitions including the Benson and Hedges Masters twice, lost in numerous finals and semi-finals and was Irish Championship from 1972 until 1980.
	www.fcsnooker.co.uk /al_higgins/alex_higgins_profile.htm (569 words)

	Alan McManus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alan McManus (born January 21, 1971) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
		He has reached the semi-finals of the world championship twice, but has never appeared in a final.
		The highlight of his career to date was claiming the Masters title at Wembley in 1994, by doing which he ended Stephen Hendry's remarkable unbeaten run in the tournament, which dated back to 1989.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alan_McManus (177 words)

	Alex Higgins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he started playing snooker at a young age.
		He won the World Professional Snooker Championship at his first attempt, in 1972, aged 23.
		His unorthodox brilliance is best encapsulated in his clearance break against Jimmy White in the World Professional Snooker Championship in 1982.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alex_Higgins (229 words)

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		SNOOKER champion Matthew Stevens, 27, is ranked No 6 in the world.
		He was ranked in the top 16 snooker players in the world four years later, which meant he no longer had to win qualifying rounds to enter tournaments at the televised stages.
		The Benson & Hedges Masters followed in 2000, and in 2003 he won the UK Championship.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8289595&postID=110114101410498113 (403 words)

	Articles - John Spencer (snooker player) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Snooker was in decline during Spencer's youth, and he did not turn professional until his early 30s, when interest in the game started to revive.
		He first won the world championship in 1969, and went on to win a total of three times, the last of which was the historic inaugural event at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977.
		Spencer was also a commentatator on snooker for television for many years, and was chairman of the WPBSA for six years.
	www.lastring.com /articles/John_Spencer_(snooker_player)?mySession=cee0847fcb550ff51497f238b3dcf184 (264 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Snooker \| Higgins returns from the brink of self-destruction
		The winner will qualify for the Benson and Hedges Masters at Wembley in February, an event the 53-year-old Irishman has twice won.
		He has often been seen since, hustling pool or snooker for £10 a game in Ireland and Manchester and was seen in the Red Lion, Gatley topping up his glass with left-over beer.
		There were alleged irregularities in the governing body's conduct of two disciplinary hearings in 1992 and 1994 and he was granted legal aid to issue a high court writ but preferred to nourish a sense of grievance.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /snooker/story/0,10158,802801,00.html (641 words)

	Eddie Charlton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eddie Charlton (31 October, 1929 - 7 November, 2004) was a world-class Australian snooker player.
		Charlton was the best snooker player ever to come out of Australia.
		He was ranked number three in the world for five consecutive seasons from 1976/77, the first year of the world rankings, though surprisingly he never won a ranking tournament.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Eddie_Charlton (177 words)

	Masters
		Outside of the world championship, the Masters is the longest running tournament on the circuit and even though it does not have ranking status, it is considered to be one of the most prestigious especially as it carries the second biggest prize.
		Benson and Hedges Championship, an event for players outside the top 16, and one of the wild card places in the Masters has been given to the winner of this event ever since.
		The banning of tobacco sponsorship means that the 2003 event was the last under the Benson and Hedges banner but the event continued initially without a sponsor but now promoted by the governing body.
	www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Masters.html (780 words)

	It was Ronnie O' Sullivan's year
		The original World Snooker Awards Lunch, due to be held at London's Cafi Royal in September, was cancelled as a mark of respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States of America.
		In winning the Embassy World Snooker championship with an 18-14 victory over Higgins, he also fulfilled a goal, which was set when he made his first century as a ten year old.
		The authentic talent, the sparkling effervescence and the genius of this 25 year old have been often threatened with the trauma and turmoil of an insecure mind, which has had to come to terms with the sudden and unfortunate conviction of his father, who is serving life for killing a man in a nightclub brawl.
	www.tssonnet.com /tss2501/25010760.htm (1577 words)

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		first professional world championship, and won its prize of £6.10s (£6.50, equivalent to about £200 today).
		world championship of 1985, when 18.5 million people (one third of the population of the UK) watched Dennis Taylor lift the cup after a mammoth struggle that went on well after midnight.
		snooker: A snooker is a shot that leaves the opponent unable to hit a legal ball directly.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Snooker (2280 words)

	snookershark.com \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He will for ever be remembered for his epic world championship win against Steve Davis on the final fl with some 18 million people watching on television well after midnight.
		Dennis was born in Coalisland, Co. Tyrone in Northern Ireland and started playing snooker when he was nine and was the local senior champion at 14.
		His first professional event was the 1973 world championship when he lost in the first round 8-9 to Cliff Thorburn.
	www.snookershark.com /famous_details.asp?id=9 (669 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| Snooker \| Benson and Hedges Masters 2002 \| Masters milestones
		The Benson and Hedges Masters is one of the most established events in the snooker calendar, and second only to the World Championship in age.
		And the 2000 defeat was particularly hard for Doherty to swallow after he missed the fl for a 147 maximum break in the 15th frame.
		The Masters celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1999 and snooker fans will not be surprised to see it still going strong after another quarter of a century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/1764505.stm (825 words)

	The Global Snooker Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The teenager is widely regarded as one of the most promising young players to emerge from Wales in recent years and is sure to benefit from the YPD programme, which helped guide 18-year-old Sean Murphy to four titles during its first year, including the Benson and Hedges Snooker Championship.
		Tomkins was part of a three-man selection panel that completed the shortlist of six players for entry to the YDP scheme, along with former World Number Eight Martin Clark and World Snooker board member Jim Chambers.
		Marvin Aldridge from London, Dave Gilbert from Derby and 18-year-old Ricky Walden from Flintshire, who launched his career by taking the prestigious World under 21 title in Stirling during the summer, complete the list of players to be offered a place on the YPD scheme next season.
	www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/Welsh/daijohnypd.htm (253 words)

	JOHN HIGGINS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		John Higgins (born May_18, 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
		He won the World Championship in 1998, and reached the number one spot in the rankings the following season.
		For a while, it seemed that Higgins would dominate snooker for several years, as Stephen_Hendry had done throughout the 1990s, but fierce competition from other newcomers, notably Mark Williams, Ronnie_O'Sullivan and Matthew_Stevens, saw him knocked off the top spot after only two seasons.
	www.bellabuds.com /John_Higgins (196 words)

	David Gray (snooker player) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He won the 1998 Benson & Hedges Championship.
		On 28 November, 2004 he reached the final of the UK Championship, losing 10-1 to Stephen Maguire.
		It was during this tournament that Gray scored his first maximum break - the 50th made in professional play - in the fifth frame of his last 32 match against Mark Selby.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/David_Gray_(snooker_player) (174 words)

	Codemasters - World Championship Snooker 2003
		Ronnie O'Sullivan's run to the semi-finals of the 2002 Embassy World Championship guaranteed him the coveted world No 1 spot for the first time in his ten-year professional career.
		There were several low points during a typically turbulent season for O'Sullivan - notably surprise defeats to Mark Selby in the quarter-finals of the China Open and Barry Hawkins in the first round of the Regal Scottish.
		His most painful reverse was at the Benson and Hedges Masters at Wembley in February when - in front of one of the most raucous snooker crowds in living memory - he led fellow crowd hero Jimmy White 5-2 but was denied a semi-final spot as the Whirlwind came back to win 6-5.
	www.codemasters.com /snooker2003/uk/pro-ros.php (617 words)

	AllSports (tm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Embassy World Snooker Championship is incomparably the most prestigious snooker tournament in the world, and is one of the UK's major annual sporting occasions staged at the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
		The Benson and Hedges Masters is the world's most prestigious invitation snooker event played at London's famous Wembley complex.
		The International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) is the world’s official governing body for non-professional snooker, and organizes the IBSF World Snooker Championship which is annually staged in a member country.
	www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/morestories.cgi?category=snooker (1471 words)

	Codemasters - World Championship Snooker 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Higgins made snooker history at the start of the 2001-2002 season by becoming the first player to win the opening three tournaments of the campaign.
		Lows included a 9-2 defeat against Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in York - which he described as "embarrassing" - and first round defeats in the Benson and Hedges Masters and Regal Scottish
		The undoubted highlight came at the 1998 Embassy World Championship when he beat Jason Ferguson, Anthony Hamilton, John Parrott and O'Sullivan before overcoming defending champion Ken Doherty 18-12 in the final to capture the game's biggest prize and take over from Hendry as world No 1.
	www.codemasters.com /snooker2003/uk/pro-jh.php (569 words)

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