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Pankaj Advani in pre-quarters (Outlook India)Pankaj Advani progressed to the pre-quarterfinals while former Asian Games and world Billiards champion Ashok Shandilya started his campaign on a solid note in the Rs.3.75 lakh Alliance Group-ASCA All India Invitational Snooker Tournament, here today.

Team notes: Dover due up for Chase contenders (USA Today)NASCAR team reports as the Sprint Cup Series heads for the second round of its annual 10-race Chase to determine a series champion at Dover International Speedway:

Shandilya begins with a win at invitational snooker (Calcutta News)Former World billiards and National snooker champion Ashok Shandilya began his campaign with a 3-0 win against local challenger Karthik in the preliminary league of the Alliance Group - ASCA All-India invitational snooker tournament, here Wednesday.

T-Mobile center lets employees chill out with billiards, X-Box (BizJournals)Between the X-Box room, the movie theater and the billiards room, you might wonder how work ever gets done at T-Mobile Financial Care.

A Man Named Minnesota Fats -- Remarkable Memoir Traces the Story of Billiards Great Rudolf Wanderon (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2008 -- The Beijing 2008 Olympics, at least for several weeks, turned the attention of the world away from depressing news events and towards more constructive human endeavor like sports.

Seeking hope, winless teams find motivation in '07 Giants (USA Today)From 2000 to 2007, only six of the 70 NFL teams that started 0-2 went on to make the playoffs. That does not bode well for the 10 teams sitting at 0-2 this week, including such high-expectation squads as the San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns.

Hoping to break into the Olympics (Gazette.net)In the billiards room at Schweinhaut Senior Center, Jerry Chirichella, 80, of Silver Spring practices Friday to qualify for the billiards event at the Maryland Senior Olympics.

Billiards top guns due for World 10-ball (Philstar.com via Yahoo! Philippines News)Vice President Noli de Castro will be the guest of honor when the country hosts the inaugural World 10-Ball Championships at the Philippine International Convention Center starting Sept. 29.



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