Snooker

• Ronnie O'Sullivan praises quick-fire Power Snooker
• 06th August 2010
  Ronnie O'Sullivan has described the World Championship as "boring" and hopes a revolutionary new competition can help revive the sport of snooker. Power Snooker, which boasts innovative rules and will feature games lasting only 30 minutes, will ...

• Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins dies at 61
• 06th August 2010
  Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on Saturday. Recent newspaper pictures showed a painfully thin ...

• Ladies' champion Reanne Evans beaten on main tour deb
• 11th July 2010
  Reanne Evans lost 4-2 to China's Liu Chuang in the Players Tour Championship on her professional tour debut. The 24-year-old ladies' world champion is the first woman to compete on the main circuit for 15 years. The six-times world title-holder was given...

• Higgins report heads for tribunal
• 27th June 2010
  Findings of the investigation into match-fixing allegations made against John Higgins will be handed to an independent tribunal next week. The three-time world snooker champion and manager Pat Mooney have denied agreeing to throw frames for £261,000...

• Players Tour Championship pits stars against amateurs
• 23rd June 2010
  The first edition of World Snooker's new Players Tour Championship has pitted a host of unknown players against some of the games top stars. The event, at Sheffield's World Snooker Academy, sees a total of 128 players compete for a £50,000 top prize...

• Barry Hearn wins vote to take control of World Snooker
• 03rd June 2010
  Barry Hearn has been handed control of World Snooker after prevailing 35-29 in a vote by the world's top 64 players. Hearn will resign as World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association chairman to take a 51% controlling share in the commercial busin...

• Barry Hearn announces new multi-event snooker series
• 22nd May 2010
  World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has announced a new series as part of his "brave new world" for the sport. The Player Tour Championship, consisting of 12 three-day events, will begin next month in Sheffield. The series will have an Order of ...

• Barry Hearn launches one-frame shoot-out tournament
• 18th May 2010
  Snooker boss Barry Hearn has promised "non-stop breathtaking action" after announcing a new one-frame shoot-out event for the world's top 64 players. Hearn said the World Snooker Shoot-Out was a key part of his plans to overhaul the sport and dr...

• John Higgins vows to clear name over match-fix claims
• 10th May 2010
  John Higgins has insisted that he is "100% innocent" of the match-fixing allegations that have prompted his suspension from snooker. The three-time world champion is facing an investigation after being filmed by journalists apparently agreeing t...

• Alex Higgins claims four top players took bribes
• 10th May 2010
  Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has claimed that at least four top players have taken bribes to lose tournament matches. The 61-year-old also revealed that he turned down several big-money offers to throw games in his career. "The names [...

• Barry Hearn says most players support new proposals
• 06th May 2010
  Barry Hearn's plans to shake up snooker look set to get the go-ahead after a players' meeting in Sheffield. World Championship runner-up Graeme Dott, Steve Davis, Mark Williams, Mark Selby and Ken Doherty were among the large player turn-out. They are du...

• Aussie Neil Robertson beats Dott to win world title
• 04th May 2010
  Neil Robertson beat Scot Graeme Dott 18-13 to become the first Australian to win the world snooker title. Robertson, who rises to number two in the world, had trailed 5-3 but having edged ahead, kept his nose in front despite not being at his best. He su...

• Monday's Scottish gossip
• 03rd May 2010
  Accessibility links Steven Davis hopes debt-struck Rangers do not try to cash in on his players' player of the year award in Scotland by selling him in the summer. (the Sun) Rangers defender Danny Wilson has hinted that he would prefer to remain with Ra...

• John Higgins aims to clear name in snooker bribe probe
• 03rd May 2010
  John Higgins says he faces "the biggest match of my life" over allegations he agreed to throw frames for money. A News of the World report claimed it secretly filmed the Scottish player agreeing to take a £261,000 bribe. Snooker's governi...

• John Higgins suspended in snooker bribe probe
• 02nd May 2010
  Snooker world number one John Higgins has been suspended from all tournaments after reportedly agreeing to take a £261,000 bribe to lose frames. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said he had to take "drastic action" following the News...

• Snooker champion John Higgins in 'bribe' allegation
• 02nd May 2010
  Snooker world number one John Higgins has reportedly agreed to take a £261,000 bribe to lose frames in four separate matches later this year. The News of the World says it has video of Higgins and his manager Pat Mooney making a deal in Ukraine on F...

• Snooker announces new deal with Crucible Theatre
• 01st May 2010
  The Crucible Theatre will remain the home of the World Snooker Championship until 2015 after a one-year extension to the current deal was announced. New snooker chief Barry Hearn made the announcement on the second day of semi-finals at the famous Sheffie...

• Steve Davis & Dennis Taylor to mark epic 1985 final
• 29th April 2010
  Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor are set to mark the 25th anniversary of their epic 1985 World Championship final with a one-frame contest at the Crucible. Thursday's clash is live on the BBC Red Button and website from 1200 BST. Northern Ireland's Taylor b...

• Steve Davis plays down chances of winning world title
• 26th April 2010
  Steve Davis insists he is not thinking about winning the World Championship for a seventh time despite stunning defending champion John Higgins 13-11. "I am not looking there," he told BBC Sport. "It is one round at a time, one frame at...

• Ronnie O'Sullivan beats Mark Williams to make quarters
• 26th April 2010
  Ronnie O'Sullivan surged into the World Championship quarter-finals with a majestic 13-10 win over Mark Williams. Resuming at 8-8, the pair shared the opening two frames before "the Rocket" stepped up a gear and took the next two, helped by ...