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	Bill Werbeniuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Werbeniuk (January 14, 1947 - January 20, 2003) was a Canadian professional snooker player.
		Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches.
		Werbeniuk was ranked as high as eighth in the world in 1983 and reached the quarter finals of the world championship four times before propranolol was banned in snooker competition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Werbeniuk (174 words)

	Pint of beer put Werbeniuk in the right frame of mind - smh.com.au
		Werbeniuk's 158-kilogram bulk, and his intake of alcohol were extraordinary - although not solely through adherence to the game's dissolute image.
		Werbeniuk's condition, as he argued towards the end of his career, could have been stabilised under the influence of beta-blockers.
		Werbeniuk was in the top 16 at the time that rankings were first drawn up, remaining (with one exception) at that level for the next eight seasons.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/23/1042911494396.html (444 words)

	Pride of Anglia - Ipswich Town Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Werbeniuk, who died on Monday in Vancouver, spent the last three years of his life in and out of hospital in his home country.
		Werbeniuk's career was effectively ended when inderal, a drug he said he took to help his heart cope with the amount of alcohol he was drinking, which he claimed counteracted a tremor in his arm, was banned.
		Werbeniuk's last professional match was his 10-1 defeat to Nigel Bond in the preliminary rounds of the 1990 world championship.
	www.prideofanglia.com /complete_nonsense/actor_boys/werbeniuk_bill.htm (379 words)

	Bill Werbeniuk
		Bill Werbeniuk Bill would drink six or eight pints before a match of snooker and a pint each frame to alleviate a hereditary arm judder.
		Werbeniuk's last recorded professional match was in the preliminary rounds of the 1990 World Championships: a 10-1 defeat to Nigel Bond.
		Bill sadly passed away in 2003 but he will always be remembered with great fondness by snooker fans around the world.
	www.beertarot.com /drunksark/cwerbeniuk.htm (235 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Big Bill Werbeniuk - Cult Snooker Legend
		Bill was playing David Taylor on the adjacent table and, having heard the ever-louder shouts of encouragement as Thorburn began to clear the colours, Bill peered around the dividing wall to find out was going on.
		Bill spent several successful seasons in the top 16, but his story is a sad one - the gallons of lager he drank before, during and after matches were to control an hereditary nervous disorder that caused his cue arm to tremble.
		Memories of Bill and tributes from his fans poured in to the BBC as news of his death broke, and these can be found on BBCi's Tribute to Bill Werbeniuk.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1032058 (1987 words)

	ESPN Classic - Snooker fraternity mourns loss of Werbeniuk
		Werbeniuk, who once split his pants open on television during a snooker competition and would drink 10 beers before picking up a cue to help control a nervous disorder, died Jan. 20.
		Werbeniuk was nine years old when he began playing snooker and he turned professional in 1973, winning both the North American and Canadian championship.
		Werbeniuk, who had been seriously ill for a year and spent his last three months in the hospital, never married and had no children.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2003/0124/1498243.html (240 words)

	Snooker: Wild Bill ... hiccup - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Werbeniuk was only 20 stones at his fighting weight, remarkably slim considering his high-calorie regime.
		Werbeniuk was not the most agile of men, given his girth, and could oft be seen waddling off for a leak between frames.
		Werbeniuk will be remembered as a bloke whose liking for a pint or 50 led to an early retirement in which he kept his hand in with the odd game of pool.
	www.sundayherald.com /30895 (1605 words)

	Print Article: Wild Bill's hiccup
		Canadian snooker star Bill Werbeniuk - who drank 50 pints of beer a day and claimed it against tax - has died at the age of 56.
		Werbeniuk's 25-stone bulk, and his intake of alcohol, became - unfairly - his most prominent characteristics in the minds of the public.
		Werbeniuk suffered from an hereditary nervous disease (or so he and his doctors claimed) which caused his hands to shake.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/01/23/1042911481767.html (979 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Sports Talk \| Tributes to Bill Werbeniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Werbeniuk was often described as a 'larger than life' character, as famous for his legendary drinking as his performances on the snooker table.
		Bill was a great player but he never let the fact that he was playing snooker in a high pressure environment in front of millions on TV get in the way of a damn good drink....what a hero!
		Bill Werbeniuk was one of the stand-out characters of snooker's golden age.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/sports_talk/2684215.stm (3063 words)

	Bill Werbeniuk
		Bill Werbeniuk, who has died aged 56, was a cult hero in the world of snooker, known for his prodigious consumption of lager.
		Born in Winnipeg, Werbeniuk was the son of a Canadian professional champion and former armed robber, fence and drug dealer.
		Werbeniuk suffered from hypoglaecaemia, a condition which enabled his body to burn off sugar and alcohol exceptionally quickly.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/1-24-2003-34279.asp (674 words)

	Bill Werbeniuk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of (A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent) alcohol he consumed before and during matches.
		He said that he generally drank around six pints of (A general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September) lager before a match and then one pint for each frame.
		Werbeniuk was ranked as high as eighth in the world in 1983 and reached the quarter finals of the (Click link for more info and facts about world championship) world championship four times before propranolol was banned in snooker competition.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_werbeniuk.htm (272 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Werbeniuk dies of heart failure
		Werbeniuk, who was 56 last week, was famous for consuming huge quantities of lager during his matches and claimed smoking and drinking helped steady his nerves at the table.
		The vast amounts of lager he consumed were not just for pleasure - Werbeniuk claimed he suffered from a rare disease which caused his hand to shake and lager seemed to be the only way of controlling it.
		Werbeniuk quit the circuit in 1989 having already received fines from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for taking a banned substance.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2003/0122/snooker.html (275 words)

	The Global Snooker Centre
		Bill began playing snooker at the age of nine in Vancouver and turned professional in 1973 winning the North American and Canadian championships in that first season.
		Bill suffers from a rare disease which causes his hand to shake and lager seemed to be the only way of controlling it.
		Bill was faced with the dilemma of either stopping the drug and risking his health or taking it and having to give up the professional game.
	www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/Players/Global_Americas/Canada/pm_profile016.htm (637 words)

	Bill Watterson - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Watterson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Watterson - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Watterson.
		William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
		Since retiring, Bill Watterson has taken up painting, often drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Bill-Watterson.html (840 words)

	Bill Werbeniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Werbeniuk (January 14, 1947 - January 20, 2003) was a Canadian snooker player.
		He said that he generally drunk around six pints of lager before a match and then one pint for each frame.
		He said he did this to counteract essential tremor, a condition for which he also took propranolol, a beta blocker.
	www.theezine.net /b/bill-werbeniuk.html (127 words)

	Bill Werbeniuk - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Werbeniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		Bill Werbeniuk - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Werbeniuk.
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	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Bill-Werbeniuk.html (265 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Snooker \| Bad Boys: 'Big' Bill Werbeniuk
		Werbeniuk began to take the drug Inderal on the advice of his doctors to help his alcohol intake.
		Werbeniuk, though, continued to take the drug and after receiving a number of fines he quit the sport.
		Werbeniuk returned to Canada and played a bit of pool before falling on bad times.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/2953641.stm (374 words)

	Guardian \| Snooker star with insatiable thirst for the game dies at 56
		Bill Werbeniuk, the 20-stone snooker star who prepared for matches by drinking eight pints of lager followed by a pint for every frame, has died at the age of 56.
		Werbeniuk reached the world championship quarter finals on four occasions in the 1980s but it was his legendary capacity for alcohol that made him one of the great characters of snooker's golden age.
		Werbeniuk played his last professional match in 1990, saying afterwards: "I've had 24 pints of extra strong lager and eight double vodkas and I'm still not drunk."
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4589379-103681,00.html (362 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Snooker \| 'Big Bill' Werbeniuk dies at 56
		Werbeniuk, who passed away on Monday in Vancouver, spent the last three years of his life in hospital in his home country.
		Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 14, 1947, Werbeniuk became a cult figure in the 1980s due to his ability to drink copious amounts of lager during matches.
		Werbeniuk spent several seasons in the top 16 but his career was effectively ended when inderal, a drug he said he took to help his heart cope with the large amounts of alcohol he was drinking, which he claimed counteracted a tremor in his arm, was banned.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /snooker/story/0,10158,880042,00.html (517 words)

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		Bill Werbeniuk was one of the players (his brother Ed became one of the great snooker players some years later, but Bill was almost as good).
		It was a four-hander and for money, and the rules were "Pay Up The Line", which means that the fourth score pays 3, 2 and 1, the third collects from 4th and pays 2 and 1, and so on.
		I went into detail about Bill, who was a lot like Jackie Gleason in The Hustler -- big and fat and so graceful it made you sick.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8851682&postID=110124031105990616 (765 words)

	Bill Wennington - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Wennington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Wennington - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bill Wennington.
		Bill Wennington (born December 26 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former NBA center who won three championships with the Chicago Bulls on their 1996, 1997 and 1998 teams.
		He was also a member of the Canadian Olympic Basketball Team in 1984 and 1992, has been inducted into the Quebec Basketball Hall of Fame, and is a nominee for induction into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Bill-Wennington.html (229 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| Snooker \| Snooker mourns Werbeniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Werbeniuk was a cult figure in snooker in the 1980s
		Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 14 January, 1947, Werbeniuk became a cult figure in the 1980s because of his ability to drink copious amounts of lager during matches.
		Werbeniuk spent several seasons in the top 16 but his career was effectively ended when inderal was banned.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/2683771.stm (439 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	bill_werbeniuk.iqexpand.com (432 words)

	MegaStar - Bill Werbeniuk remembered
		Bill Werbeniuk’s booze consumption was legendary, to the extent that he once tried to offset his lager expenditure against tax.
		He claimed that he needed a constant intake of beer in order to stop an arm tremor that affected his cue action, and he’d have six or so pints before a match and another after each frame.
		Bill was never one of the very top players, and his fame was out of all proportion to his success.
	www.megastar.co.uk /world/news/2003/01/23/sMEG01MTA0MzMxNzY3MjI.html (182 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Bill Werbeniuk
		He was soon pitted against the local champion at £5 a frame: he lost.
		Playing in Australia, he and the English player John Spencer took the prize money from all the other competitors at £10 a point after the tournament.
		A bankruptcy notice was filed against him in 1991, and later that year he was severely reprimanded and fined £5,000 for refusing to take a drugs test.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/23/db2301.xml (959 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| Snooker \| Benson and Hedges Masters 2002 \| Where are they now?
		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.
		Despite his love for the game Werbeniuk continued to take the drug and after receiving a number of fines he quit the game and entered the world of pool.
	newsrss.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/benson_and_hedges_masters_2002/1764513.stm (839 words)

	"big" bill werbeniuk dies - Tech Support Guy
		Former snooker player Bill Werbeniuk has died of heart failure at the age of 56.
		Werbeniuk was famous for consuming huge quantities of lager during his matches and claimed smoking and drinking helped steady his nerves at the table.
		Werbeniuk, who topped 20st, turned professional in 1973, won the North American and Canadian championships in his first season and was reputed to have won $20,000 in 10 hours playing 9-ball pool in America in 1977.
	forums.techguy.org /showthread.php?t=114652 (381 words)

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