Category: Billiard Tours

Relationship status is one little line in a Facebook profile with infinite pitfalls. Sacramento therapist Stephen Grinstead has seen it up close. “It’s almost caused a number of divorces,” he said. He cited a couple in which the wife discovered her husband had a Facebook account where he’d listed himself…

March of the Microbes Sighting the Unseen by John L. Ingraham scanned coverJohn Ingraham is on a first-name basis with microbes of all designs and “intentions” – the good kind and the bad kind. You’d do yourself a favor getting to know microbes, too. They’re invisible but ubiquitous, directly affecting…

A customer picks a card at Pulp Papery in east Sacramento. Co-owner Manpreet Bains says the recession has hurt but there will always be a market for paper cards.A few days before Valentine’s Day, shoppers jostled shoulder to shoulder before overflowing racks of greeting cards with touches of red at…

Jankowski Double-Dips Collie for Title Lucasi Hybrid All-American Tour / Port Charlotte, FL by InsidePOOL Staff Trey Jankowski took down the February 13 stop of the Lucasi Hybrid All-American Tour, double-dipping Shawn Collie in the final set. Hosted by Q’s Sports Bar & Girl in Port Charlotte, FL, this $500-added…

Sylver Takes Gold at 2010 Lone Star Premier Lone Star Billiards Tour / Houston, TX by InsidePOOL Staff The Lone Star Billiards Tour kicked off its first event of the year February 13-14 at Bogies Billiards and Games in Houston, TX. Even though it was Valentine’s Day weekend, 54 players…

Parica Takes Down 14th Annual Jay Swanson Memorial Jay Swanson Memorial / Hollywood, CA by Lea Andrews Jose “Amang” Parica showed the crowd at Hollywood Billiards in Hollywood, CA, that he was the man to beat as he shot his way into the hot seat of the 14th Annual Jay…

Lapadula and McCloud Split Tri-State Billiards Purse Tri-State Tour / East Rutherford, NJ by InsidePOOL Staff Castle Billiards in East Rutherford, NJ, hosted the February 13 stop of the Tri-State Tour, which brought in a field of 54 people. The $500-added, B-D event saw Ted Lapadula and Tom McCloud split…

Patricia Newlin, 63, and Mike Mannix, 65, made a love connection on eharmony.com. After Mannix sent his first e-mail to Newlin, they talked incessantly before meeting. Newlin recently moved from Texas to Carmichael to be with Mannix, and they plan to marry this year.She’d had it with the whole online…

Elena HightCelebrities do it, candidates do it, you do it (or at least have heard of it). And athletes do it, with Vancouver 2010 set to become the first “Twitter Olympics,” an experiment in crossing the world’s greatest sporting event with a blizzard of information swept up by social media…