When Nick Varner was a senior at Purdue University in 1969, world 14.1 pocket billiards champion Joe Balsis visited the campus for an exhibition. As the reigning ACUI national collegiate champion, ...

David O’Rourke has 53 years of pool experience in his pocket. For the next seven weeks, every Monday night from 5 to 8 p.m., O’Rourke will be at the Illini Union Recreation Room, teaching University ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Pool, the informal American term for pocket billiards, ...

Trading in their brushes for pool cues, the group that gathers for “painters’ pool” find a respite from the studio. Trading in their brushes for pool cues, the group that gathers for “painters’ pool” ...