http://www.snookerbreak.com The No.1 independent snooker site Tue, 11 May 2010 15:40:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 1972 and 1982 Crucible king said: “I'm still in touch with top agents in the game and the only thing they've said about this is, "How greedy do you want to be?" I know of at least four pros who have taken big bribes to chuck games. The names would shock the public if it was proved they were on the take.”
“Just because they wear crisp white shirts doesn't make them clean...]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/headline/alex-higgins-snooker-is-rife-with-corruption/ Hearn, speaking after the News of the World published a story on world number 1 and last year’s World Champion Higgins, which allegedly shows him agreeing to lose 4 frames of snooker in exchange for a cash payment of £261,000, said:
“Obviously the guy is in bits and I can sympathise with him because it's been his whole life - the guy is number one in the world”]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/snookertournaments/hearn-%e2%80%98it-doesn%e2%80%99t-look-good-for-john-higgins%e2%80%99/ One sport that has eluded them is snooker. But that all changed with Neil Robertson’s 18-13 victory over Scotland’s Graeme Dott on Sunday...]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/snookertournaments/robertson-revels-in-world-championship-victory/ Hearn, chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, has plans for his Matchroom Sport business to take a 51% share in the sport, with the remaining stake leftover to players and fellow promoters.
But 2002 world champion, Ebdon, is unhappy with Hearn’s company having such a stranglehold on the game]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/news/ebdon-concern-at-hearn%e2%80%99s-snooker-plans/ Organiser Joe Johnson, winner of the World Snooker Championship in 1986, today announced that the tournament will have no less than six former world champions on show, with Ken Doherty, Peter Ebdon, John Parrott and Dennis Taylor confirmed to take part in the new event.]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/snookertournaments/higgins-davis-and-white-to-star-in-senior-event/ Doherty, winner at the Crucible back in 1997, kissed the theatre floor after entering the arena to face Selby on Saturday, but it was the ‘Jester from Leicester’
The Dubliner, absent from snookers showpiece tournament 12 months ago, ]]> http://www.snookerbreak.com/snookertournaments/doherty-future-uncertain-after-selby-defeat/ http://www.snookerbreak.com/news/higgins-snooker-could-disappear-in-10-years/ http://www.snookerbreak.com/snookerrankings/latest-official-and-provisional-world-rankings/