16 June 2011 World Snooker, the company that runs the commercial arm of the game, is considering a redundancy programme that could see many staff lose their jobs, according to The Snooker Blog today. The in-the-know baize website reproduces the following letter from World Snooker to employees. .. 6 June 2011 To all staff Potential Redundancies and Company reorganisation […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 April 2011 The 110 Sport Group, the management company that handles the affairs of a string of the biggest names in snooker, is about to be liquidated, sportingintelligence has learned today. The company is expected to make a public confirmation next week that it […]

By Nick Harris 12 November 2010 The former world No1, John Higgins, has returned to action today after a six-month ban with a win in his first match, 4-2 over Joe Jogia, in the first round of the Euro Players Tour Championship in Hamm, Germany. The event is minor but the victory a massive step […]

By Nick Harris 30 October 2010 Ronnie O’Sullivan claimed tonight that snooker “has finally entered the 21st century” after winning the inaugural event under the Power Snooker format, beating China’s Ding Junhui in the final after a day of thrills, spills, confusion, jeers, cheers and beers. ‘The Rocket’ picked up a winner’s cheque of £35,000 […]

By Nick Harris 21 October 2010 Snooker’s most charismatic player Ronnie O’Sullivan is expected to be the star attraction when the sport breaks fresh ground next year with a tournament in Brazil, announced today. The Brazilian Masters will feature the world’s top 12 players plus four wild cards, and will run from 14 to 17 […]

By Nick Harris 20 September 2010 The date of John Higgins’ return to competitive snooker will be dictated to some extent by  the health of his father, John Snr, who is suffering from cancer and whose condition will occupy the Higgins family above all else for the immediate future. In a bitter irony in the […]

By Nick Harris 20 September 2010 Snooker players will be banned for life for any infringement of “Draconian” new betting rules intended to make the sport “cleaner than clean, whiter then white”, according Barry Hearn, the chairman of World Snooker. Hearn was speaking as he launched a new integrity unit, to be overseen by the […]

By Nick Harris 10 September 2010 Irony: snooker’s world No1 player cleared of match fixing but banned for six months and fined £75,000 for talking about betting, two days before the game’s governing body announces its latest tie-up with the bookmaking industry. In a statement on World Snooker’s website today, it is announced that the […]

By Nick Harris 3 September 2010 As controversy continues to surround the manipulated events at the recent fourth Test between England and Pakistan – events orchestrated and paid for by the News of the World to demonstrate corruptibility – and as the New York Times investigates allegations of illegal phone hacking at the NotW – the News […]

17 August 2010 Wendy Jans of Belgium and Anita Rizzuti of Norway will reach new milestones in their snooker careers when they take their places in the qualifiers for snooker’s new World Open. Jans and Rizzuti will play in Sheffield in qualifiers over the coming weekend; the innovative format of the new event gives juniors, […]