snooker

An emotional Mark Allen said retiring from snooker is "something I have been contemplating for a while" following his first-round loss to Jordan Brown in the Northern Ireland Open.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Speaking earlier to TNT Sports, Allen said he was in a "bad place at the minute", adding he does not "see a future with snooker in it".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Hearn, whose Matchroom promotional empire is centred on boxing, darts and snooker, has been working as Pollock's adviser since March.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Barry Hearn is the founder and president of Matchroom Sport, one of the leading promoters across boxing, darts and snooker.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

But in snooker there are other ways to win points, as Alex knew only too well.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

With three episodes left, it seems odd that the writers devised a tale in which Saul snookers a mall cop with an oversized pastry.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Mark Williams hits an "impossible" shot in a dramatic Masters semi-final loss to Neil Robertson, in which the Australian came back from two snookers down to win the deciding frame.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2022

I needed two snookers at 5-5 and Mark played an amazing shot where he clipped the red away.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2022

We can be heard trying to shush them, and will continue to do so until the other teams need snookers.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2017

McIlroy’s 75 – including 37 putts – leaves him nine adrift and needing Sunday snookers.

From The Guardian ● May 14, 2016

“The assertion that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was snookered by the Department of the Interior is not fooling anybody,” Eisen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Yet much of the press seems to have been snookered.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

“Attorney Baldwin did nothing wrong. He was snookered and abused,” Hennessy said in the memorandum.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

“When you find out who the murderer is and begin leafing through the pages, looking for missed clues,” Tina Jordan recently commented in The Times, “you’ll realize just how completely Christie snookered you.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

“Okay, so the authorities are being snookered by these hidden messages. But how could they resist the facts? Show them your Receiver gizmo, Mr. Benedict. They’ll have to believe you.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Leading 5-2, Murphy knocked in 15 reds and 15 blacks to reach 120 with only the colours remaining but ended up snookering himself behind the blue and the chance was lost.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

But the crypto implosion at least has a cleansing benefit: It offers an opportunity to mop up a speculative and overhyped mess that has gotten badly out of control, snookering gullible investors in the process.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

David Hampton posed as the son of Sidney Poitier, snookering high-caste Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011

But in seeking position on the green he needed to take the white around the table but lost position, snookering himself.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2010

But, as in any case of cloak-and-dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom.

From Time Magazine Archive