Pool’s governing bodies are facing a potential sex-discrimination lawsuit brought by women players devastated at the lack of restrictions on transgender competitors. Lynne Pinches, who recently ...
A transgender pool champion has lost a legal battle to overturn a ban on players who were not born female from competing in women-only events. Harriet Haynes, 35, sued the English Blackball Pool ...
What started as a friendly challenge to a game of pool, turned into Nayan Tamrakar’s journey to amateur championship pool player. “We literally were going in to have fun and challenge each other,” he ...
Neil Jones, a 59-year-old retired tiler, won a $2.9 million lottery prize in 2010. He decided to buy a pool table with his winnings, which kickstarted his professional career. Jones will soon captain ...
In the summer of 2023, Alix Max, new to town with a cigarette in their mouth, was shooting pool on the patio of 4100 Bar in Silver Lake. They were pretty good too — good enough to catch the eye of two ...
A female pool player received a round of applause when she forfeited a pool tournament rather than compete against a trans woman in the finals. Lynne Pinches opted to walk away from the finals of the ...
The pool player who forfeited her chance to win a top national title over transgender rules says she has been snubbed in an 11th-hour attempt to join the professional tour. Lynne Pinches told ...
A transgender pool player has lost a discrimination claim against one of the sport’s main organisers over its decision to ban those who were not born female from its women’s competitions and teams.
After struggling to keep up with Europe for more than a decade, Team USA’s pool team acquired an unlikely star: Russian world champion Fedor Gorst. Gorst, 25, is the No. 1 ranked pool player in the ...
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