THE Snooker Shoot Out has returned for another year of scintillating action from Blackpool! Some of snookers biggest such as Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson and Mark Selby did not make the trip, but there ...

Tom Ford is the defending champion at the Shoot Out this year (Picture: Getty Images) The Snooker Shoot Out gets underway on Wednesday as the unique event returns to Blackpool for the first time since ...

Six-time world championship finalist Jimmy White MBE has revamped the snooker club where he practiced 40 years ago. White, who won the 1984 Masters and the 1992 UK Championship but never lifted the ...

Former footballer Joey Barton has been spared jail after sending grossly offensive social media posts about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko. Last month a jury ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan has given high praise to two young snooker talents, comparing them to legendary players Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry. The Rocket turned 50 this week and is still sitting pretty in ...

Snooker icon Steve Davis was gushing in his admiration of Jimmy White last year while appraising his former rival's career. 'The Whirlwind' continues to compete at 63 and wasn't far off making the cut ...

Ronnie O'Sullivan might be the biggest name in snooker, but he isn't the wealthiest. That honour goes to Steve Davis, whose fortune is roughly a third larger than The Rocket's - even though Davis ...

SHAUN MURPHY beat John Higgins in a huge last-16 clash at the UK Championship. The Magician won a deciding frame thriller to progress, while Elliot Slessor was whitewashed by Barry Hawkins. Please ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...

Steve Cropper was never a household name the way Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are, but he was the guitar hero’s guitar hero. With an instantly identifiable tone, his guitar could sing (the “Play it, ...

Steve Cropper, one of the true pillars of Stax Records, has died. Cropper’s son, Cameron, confirmed his passing to Variety. He was 84. The Missouri-born Cropper moved to Memphis at the age of 9, got ...

Steve Cropper, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who helped form the “Memphis soul” sound on Stax Records recordings by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Booker T. & the M.G.’s, died today. He ...