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The competition garnered criticism for allowing trans women to compete in the women's category. A British woman defeated her trans-identified biological male opponent in the UK Mini Series pool championships on Sunday, declaring victory over the man after making a "phenomenal comeback" near the end of the match. Welsh player Kristy-Lee Davies defeated Harriet Haynes, a trans-identified male formerly named Chris, in the Ultimate Pool group mini-series championships on Oct. 13. The competition garnered criticism for allowing trans-identified males to compete in the women's category. Further controversy erupted when the only two biological male contestants who entered the competition squared...

Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago – linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain – have been discovered in an ancient tomb on the island of Sanday, in the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland. Hundreds of similar stone balls, each about the size of a baseball, have been found at Neolithic sites mainly in Scotland and the Orkney Islands, but also in England, Ireland, and Norway, Live Science previously reported. Some are ornately carved – such as the famous Towie ball discovered in northeast Scotland in 1860 – but others are studded with...

We are very saddened today to report the death of a true legend in the game of billiards. Steve "The Miz" Mizerak has left us. Mizerak had been hospitalized since January when he was admitted for gall bladder problems. He had been in a coma for the past few months. Mizerak never completely recovered for the stroke he suffered in 2001. Mizerak won the US Open 14.1 Championship an amazing four straight years from 1970 to 1973 and was the US Open 9-Ball Champion in 1978. He was inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame 1980 as the youngest...

Olhausen Billiards, which has built pool tables in San Diego County since 1973, is moving its Poway factory to Tennessee to save on trucking costs and to better compete against cheap imports. The company said yesterday that it will close its 128,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on Kirkham Court in July or August, leaving about 120 workers out of jobs. About 75 other employees, most of them in supervisory and executive positions, plan to relocate with the company. “We're on the western edge of the continent, while 65 percent of our business is east of the Mississippi,” Olhausen President Gregg Hovey said....

The Arizona Republic Jul. 23, 2003 07:45 PM TEMPE - A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming Tempe's smoking ban was unconstitutional ..Judge Roslyn O. Silver said in Tuesday's ruling that the ban "easily passes constitutional muster." She stated that a city does not need proof that smoking is a hazard, but can base regulation on the belief that is so. She also stated the ban is not an illegal. See Suit vs. smoking ban dismissed AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE Smoking bans and judicial tyranny July 28, 2003 I am amazed a federal Judge [Roslyn O. Silver] would...