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The only other players the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) have successfully prosecuted for match-fixing are Stephen Lee, Leo Fernandez, Yu Delu, Cao Yupeng, David John, Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon and amateur player John Sutton.
The "Crucible curse" (also known as "The curse of the Crucible") is a quip in professional snooker, referring to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has retained the title since the tournament moved to Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in 1977.
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, ... Sue Foster (ENG) Geoff ... David Gilbert (ENG) † [81] ...
The Kirk Cousins curse refers to a curse in which an NFL team who has lost to quarterback Kirk Cousins has failed to win a Super Bowl since he entered the league in 2012. The curse first started to take effect in 2016 when Cousins, as a member of the Washington Redskins (now the Washington Commanders) defeated the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants.
The final is one of the most famous matches in snooker history and part of the reason for the surge in the sport's popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. Two hour-long BBC documentaries, When Snooker Ruled the World from 2002 and Davis v Taylor: The '85 Black Ball Final made in 2010, commemorated the event. The final frame was released in full on ...
David Foster, 'Love Theme From "St. Elmo’s Fire" ' (1985) Foster’s theme from the Brat Pack classic was the rare instrumental track to crash the pop Top 20 in the 1980s.
“Reverse the Curse,” the second movie written and directed by David Duchovny (the first was “House of D,” in 2004), is based on Duchovny’s 2016 novel “Bucky F*cking Dent,” and ...
The total prize fund for the event was £250,000, the highest prize pool for any snooker tournament to that date. The winner received £60,000, which was the highest amount ever received by the winner of a snooker event at that time. The defending champion was Englishman Steve Davis, who had previously won the World Championship three times.