Billiards
Jimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in 2026 International Championship qualifying: a win built by format, not form
Chalkgate in Da Nang: Jayson Shaw, Duong Quoc Hoang and the Variable Beyond the Scoreboard
Billiards: Six Rule Systems Under One Name — And the Trap of a Fully Formatted, Empty Analysis
Sofia 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Tournaments and a Challenge Cup for the Non-Qualifiers
BilliardsBelfast and the Race to Four: Why the Top 16 Fell to Structure, Not DeclineWaterfront Hall, Belfast. Opening day of the round of 64. Mark Selby lost 2-4...
BilliardsSix Sports Under One Name: Why 'Billiards' Is the Hardest Test in Sports CommentaryIn 2026, in the VTC commentary booth for the final between Steve Davis and...
BilliardsAJ Manas Returns to the Reyes Cup 2026: Between an MVP Title and the Empty-Data ProblemMakati, October. A 9-ball halts less than two handspans from the pocket. Nobo...
BilliardsSilent Data: When Empty Stadiums Revealed the True Face of Liverpool's PressingThirty-four months ago, I sat in my rented flat in London, rewatching 12...
BilliardsJimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in 2026 International Championship qualifying: a win built by format, not formMatthew Stevens stepped to the table first in the deciding frame. He had...
BilliardsJimmy White Beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in International Championship Qualifier: Best-of-11 Is the Real VariableThe deciding frame. Matthew Stevens got in first, made nine, then stopped. A...
BilliardsChalkgate in Da Nang: Jayson Shaw, Duong Quoc Hoang and the Variable Beyond the ScoreboardThe Peri Pool Arena in Da Nang was packed with roughly two hundred people. I...
BilliardsThe Grammar of the Shot: Why "Billiards" Is Not One Sport1:40 a.m., a billiard hall on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street, Nha Trang. A young m...
BilliardsDiscipline First: Why World Billiards Cannot Be Analyzed as One SportOn a snooker table, people count centuries. On an American 9-ball table, they...
BilliardsBilliards: Six Rule Systems Under One Name — And the Trap of a Fully Formatted, Empty AnalysisFor seventeen years in the VTC commentary booth, I called nearly every classi...
BilliardsBilliards Is Not One Sport: Four Rule Systems and the Cost of Lumping Them TogetherTwo in the morning at a practice room on Nguyen Van Troi Street, I sat...