Category: Billiard Tours

Three in a Row on Lone Star Tour for Bryant Lone Star Tour / Houston, TX by Lea Andrews Charlie “Hillbilly” Bryant is taking all comers on the Lone Star Tour and putting every one of them in their place. Going undefeated July 18-19 through the field of 89 who arrived…

Third Time’s a Charm for Shuff Virginia State 9-Ball Championships / Midlothian, VA by Brian Keller Putting one third-place and two runner-up finishes under his belt in the last three years at the Virginia State 9-Ball Championships, presented by Inside POOL Magazine, Brandon Shuff had reason to think the tournament…

J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour / South Amboy, NJ by Lea Andrews Karen “The Irish Invader” Corr, who won the WPBA’s inaugural Satellite Tour event on July 12, is on a winning streak, and no one, not even Kelly “Kwikfire” Fisher, seems able to bring her down. Corr and Fisher…

Midwest 9-Ball Tour / Olathe, KS by Lea Andrews Out of the full field of the 128 players who gathered July 17-19 for the Midwest 9-Ball Tour stop at Shooters Billiards in Olathe, KS, only one man, Chip Compton, made it through unscathed. The $4,000-added main event, run by Evelyn…

Carolina Ladies J. Pechauer Tour / Hickory, NC by Lea Andrews Kim “The Cooler” Shaw, who topped the field at the Carolina Ladies J. Pechauer Tour stop in May, did it again on July 18 at Randolph’s Billiards in Hickory, NC. Although a scheduling conflict with a nearby APA ladies’…

Tiger Bay Area Amateur Tour / Palm Harbor, FL by Lea Andrews Stephanie Mitchell, who had a good showing at the WPBA’s inaugural Satellite Tour event, had an even better showing at the $400-added Tiger Bay Area Amateur Tour event the following weekend on July 18. Balancing her tour director…

Seminole Pro Tour / Goldsboro, NC by Raymond Linares With only seven games booked in the loss column, Corey Deuel is the frontrunner for the title of champion at the Seminole Pro Tour’s Goldsboro, NC, event this weekend. With wins over Raymond Linares 7-2, Earl Strickland 7-2, and Mike Davis…

Retired Aerojet engineer Clay Boyce is surrounded by Apollo 11 memorabilia, including a model of the lunar module and orbiting lunar station. Boyce and his colleagues at the Johnson Space Center control room waited with bated breath in July 1969 to see if their propulsion system would steer Apollo 11…

Brooke Haynes of El Dorado Hills, in middle, and Miranda Dodd of Shingle Springs, both 10, test on Thursday a robot they built during the weeklong session of the Internal Drive Tech Camp offered by UC Davis this summer. About 30 to 50 youths attend each camp.”Code six,” yelled a…

Do Eskimos have more words for “snow” than we do? You’re probably not alone if you thought the answer was yes. Truth is, this is one of those pesky urban myths – like the untrue predictions of a moon-sized Mars in August – that just won’t fade from the popular…