Snooker's Triple Crown consists of the sport's three most prestigious titles: the UK Championship, the Masters, and the World ...

Silvino Francisco, a South African snooker player who was prominent in the 1980s and was later jailed for three years for ...

South Africa's 1980s snooker favourite Silvino Francisco has died at the age of 78. He beat Alex Higgins en route to becoming ...

White never managed to win the World Snooker Championship despite reaching six finals between 1984 and 1994. He has since triumphed at the World Senior Championship on four occasions, a record ...

Ding Junhui has the honour of being the only player in Masters history to make more than one maximum break at the sport's ...

Alex "Hurricane" Higgins and Jimmy "Whirlwind" White were a shot of rock n roll to a world where the stars wore conservative ...

They were the untamed bad boys of snooker. They would blow away the ... "When Higgins beat White in the semi-final at the 1982 World Championships, he had vodka in his drink.

Public figures who also died in 2024 include: German footballing legend Franz Beckenbauer, snooker's first TV star Ray ...

Mark Wildman:, external Won numerous British billiards titles before claiming the World Championship in 1984. In snooker, he made history with the first televised century in 1960. He was also a ...

She received some of the nation's top honours for her pioneering work and in 1984 was ... start the Third World War for you." German footballing legend Franz Beckenbauer, snooker's first TV ...