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News A Small Club in Ohio Might Have Cracked the Junior Pipeline No academy, no budget — just a Tuesday night and a formula bigger programs keep overlooking. Read the story
A player reaching to pot the red (Wikimedia Commons) Tips & Techniques Pattern Play 101: Reading the Rack Before You Shoot The difference between a run-out and a messy finish is decided before the cue ball is ever struck. Four-ball carom billiards on a pocketless table (Wikimedia Commons) Tournaments Four Colors, No Pockets, and Three Rails of Trouble: Why Carom Is the Hardest Game You've Never Watched The world championship trophy (Wikimedia Commons) News Trophy Cabinet: The Weight of a Season in Metal

News

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  1. A Quiet Rule Change Is About to Reshape How the Break Is Called A small clarification in the rulebook has big implications for the most important shot in the game.
  2. Amateur Leagues Report Record Entries Across Three Continents The quietest boom in cue sports is happening nowhere near a television camera.
  3. A Small Club in Ohio Might Have Cracked the Junior Pipeline No academy, no budget — just a Tuesday night and a formula bigger programs keep overlooking.
  4. Trophy Cabinet: The Weight of a Season in Metal Every tour hands out hardware. Only a few pieces of it actually mean something.

Tournaments

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Championship arena under the lights (Wikimedia Commons) Nine Days Under the Lights: The World Pool Championship Returns to the Boardwalk The circuit's flagship event is coming back to its most storied room — and the build is bigger than ever.
  1. The Room Where Noise Becomes a Weapon: Notes From the Mosconi Cup
  2. From the Crucible to the Clubhouse: The Changing Shape of the Championship Arena
  3. Four Colors, No Pockets, and Three Rails of Trouble: Why Carom Is the Hardest Game You've Never Watched

Players

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Efren Reyes at the World 9-Ball Championship (Wikimedia Commons) The Magician's Footwork: What Efren Reyes Still Teaches the Game Shane van Boening lining up a shot at the Mosconi Cup (Wikimedia Commons) Shane van Boening's Blueprint for Pressure Rodney Morris at the Mosconi Cup (Wikimedia Commons) Rodney Morris and the Long Art of the Comeback

Equipment

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Cue and cue ball on a pool table (Wikimedia Commons) The Quiet Craftsman: Inside a One-Man Cue Shop No showroom, no waitlist hype — just twenty-two steps between a blank of maple and a cue that never leaves its owner.
  1. Billiard balls on the cloth (Wikimedia Commons) Low-Deflection Shafts, Explained Without the Marketing

Tips & Techniques

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  1. Stop Sliding the Cue Ball: Three Drills That Fix Your Stroke in a Week If your cue ball keeps dying on the spot, the problem probably isn't your aim — it's your delivery. 1 min read
  2. Pattern Play 101: Reading the Rack Before You Shoot The difference between a run-out and a messy finish is decided before the cue ball is ever struck. 1 min read

Industry

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  1. The Streaming Wars Come for the Baize Cue sports were once broadcast's afterthought. Now the platforms are bidding against each other — and the sport is still deciding what it wants to be.