LONDON (Reuters) - Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, the twice world snooker champion who died Saturday aged 61, dragged a staid and stuffy sport into the modern era with his outrageous talent and scandalous ...

Terry Griffiths, who has died from complications of dementia aged 77, was the rank outsider who in 1979 pulled off one of the biggest shocks in snooker history when he snatched the World Championship ...

For a moment in the mid-1980s snooker ruled the world. The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor is usually seen as the high watermark, with 18 million viewers rapt by ...