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Matushonek Tops on Blaze Tour
24 Jul 2008 at 9:55am
Matushonek Tops on Blaze Tour Blaze 9-Ball Tour / Drexel Hill, PA by InsidePOOL Staff Drexeline B...
Mendoza and Pettipiece Win Predator World 14.1 Championship Arizona Qualifier
24 Jul 2008 at 8:52am
Mendoza and Pettipiece Win Predator World 14.1 Championship Arizona Qualifier Bernie Pettipiece a...
Cue and Case to Award Over $10,000 at Lucasi Hybrid Classic
23 Jul 2008 at 8:18am
Cue and Case to Award Over $10,000 Bonus Money at Lucasi Hybrid Classic Cue and Case, creators of...
First-Place Split for Ranola and Ford
22 Jul 2008 at 9:26am
First-Place Split for Ranola and Ford Predator 9-Ball Women’s Open / Parsippany, NJ by InsidePOOL...
Imran Majid Wins GB9 Scarborough Cup Billiards Event
22 Jul 2008 at 7:18am
Imran Majid Wins GB9 Scarborough Cup Billiards Event The final match of the Great Britain 9-Ball ...
Bergman and Cole Capture Viking Billiard Tour Victories
21 Jul 2008 at 3:50pm
Bergman and Cole Capture Viking Billiard Tour Victories Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour / Memphis, TN by I...
Juniors and Wheelchair Billiards Championships
21 Jul 2008 at 6:54am
Juniors and Wheelchair Billiards Championships The Billiard Congress of America (BCA) and the Uni...
Rhee Rings up Tiger Billiard Tour Victory
21 Jul 2008 at 5:14am
Rhee Rings up Tiger Billiard Tour Victory Tiger Pool Tour / Winchester, VA by Skip Maloney In the...

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Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports) are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.

Historically, the umbrella term was Billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings among certain groups and geographic regions. In the United Kingdom, "billiards" refers exclusively to English billiards, while in the United States it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context.

There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:

* Carom Billiards, referring to games played on tables without pockets, including among others balkline and straight rail, cushion caroms, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards
* Pocket Billiards (or "pool") generally played on a table with six pockets, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball, straight pool, one-pocket and bank pool
* Snooker, which while technically a pocket billiards game, is generally classified separately based on its historic divergence from other games, as well as a separate culture and terminology that characterize its play.
More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.

Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century; to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots in her billiard table cover in 1586; through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line "let us to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07); to the dome on Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, which conceals a billiard room he hid, as billiards was illegal in Virginia at that time; and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport including, Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, and many others.

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