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    Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered...
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    Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the...
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  • glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played...
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    Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various...
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    Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting. Born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Irthlingborough...
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  • and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard...
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  • Cue sports events were contested at the Asian Games starting from the 1998 Games in Bangkok. Billiards and snooker at the Southeast Asian Games Cue sports...
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  • Air hockey Backgammon Beer Pong Carrom Nok Hockey Chess Connect Four Cue sports (a.k.a Billiards) Draughts (a.k.a. checkers) Dominoes Headis Janggi Mahjong...
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  • 2024 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main highlight for this year is the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Paris...
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    A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool...
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  • Cue sports have a long history in India. The game of snooker originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century...
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  • volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce. Cue sports, such as pool and...
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    Billiard ball (redirect from Cue ball)
    A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
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    players use topspin to keep the cue ball moving, including after it hits other balls. They get top spin by hitting the cue against the top of the ball. In...
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  • Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case...
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  • Cue sports was contested at the Asian Games for the first time at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 6 and 19 December 1998. The competition...
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  • The year of 1870 included challenge matches in the table-top cue sports of pool disciplines and English billiards. The following notable challenge matches...
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  • original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019. "Junaid Ahmed". Cue Sports India. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August...
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  • Clive Everton (category British sports broadcasters)
    editor until September 2022. He has authored over twenty books about cue sports since 1972. Everton began commentating on snooker for BBC radio in 1972...
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  • Cue sports at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Asian Games Town Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China from November 13 to 20, 2010. A total of 191 athletes from...
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  • and competing in other tournaments in the city. He became interested in cue sports after his father opened a pool club dedicated to Chinese eight-ball. Si...
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  • Women's cue sports in Australia is a sporting topic that has received some Australian media coverage since the early 20th century. Coverage began with...
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  • club cricketer. In cue sports, players can reach farther across the table if they are able to play with either hand, since the cue must either be placed...
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    surrounding table-top cue sports. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and...
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    Referee (redirect from Official (sports))
    when a competitor cannot continue without endangering his health. In cue sports, such as billiards and snooker, matches are presided over by a referee...
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  • Hossein Vafaei (category Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games)
    Under-21 Snooker Championship 2009". Cue Sports India. Retrieved 19 May 2014. "Snooker (Men) Individual". Cue Sports India. Retrieved 19 May 2014. "World...
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  • This is a list of professional sports – that is, sports (and, more broadly, non-sport games subject to organized competition) that support one or more...
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  • first 5 minutes and 15 seconds for the last 5 minutes. Failure to strike the cue ball within the time allowed results in a minimum 5 points penalty or the...
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    Snooker (category Cue sports)
    Snooker (pronounced UK: /ˈsnuːkər/ SNOO-kər, US: /ˈsnʊkər/ SNUUK-ər) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth...
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    between 1962 and 1977, 1999-2003 and since 2008. Cue sports also known as Billiards Sports or Pool Sports are popular in Asia particularly in East and South...
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