Category: Press Releases

BEF “œExcellence in Education” Scholarship($2,000 award)

Megan Ferry of Denver, NC

 The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of its annual scholarship program. The objective of the BEF Academic Scholarship Program is to grant scholarships to high school seniors who have benefited from the sport of billiards and are pursuing a college education.

The scholarships are divided into two categories: BEF Excellence in Education scholarship ($2,000 award) and BEF Aiming for Higher Education scholarships (3 x $1,000 award).

The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Samm Diep-Vidal to the position of Executive Director.

Vidal joins the organization on May 1, 2012 to work alongside current Executive Director, Laura Smith. On August 1, Vidal will assume full executive director duties; Smith will continue on as a trustee of the organization.

Keystone TAP, LLC  –  Established, Entertaining and Expanding

Halifax, PA, April 24th, 2012 -  TAP Players in the Heart of PA and Soul of MD know they got a good thing in their league.  And the word is spreading throughout its borders.

Keystone TAP started in May 2007 operating in 6 Counties in PA. In 2009, the purchase of another PA TAP operation took place which included two additional territories and the players from Hagerstown, MD and Frederick, MD wanted to join in too.  Creating a league extending over 13 counties in Pennsylvania and 2 in Maryland.

Tribute to Grady ‘The Professor’ Mathews

January 3, 1943 – April 18, 2012

They called him ‘The Professor’, but they could just as aptly have called him Mr. One Pocket. It is hard to imagine a model for contributing more to the game of One Pocket than exhibited over the career of Grady Mathews; he has truly been an ambassador to the game.

Born January 3, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, when Grady was a teenager his family moved to San Mateo, California, just about 25 miles outside of the pool Mecca of San Francisco. Grady was a good natural athlete, but once he got started with pool, that is where he turned his attention. He proved to be an adept student of pool, especially the game of One Pocket, honing his skills at fabled Cochran’s in San Francisco in the early 1960’s before he took to the road.

The International Cuemakers Hall of Fame is inducting two of the world’s top cuemakers at the Super Billiards Expo this March. This years inductees are Dan Janes and Thomas Wayne. The following gives a little information about why both men are well deserving of their Hall of Fame status.
Dan Janes

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Tiger Products, a manufacturer of fine pool and billiard products, announces their sponsorship of WPBA pro pool player Cristina De La Garza. “œI am extremely happy that we have teamed up with Cristina to promote the Tiger® brand. She is very professional & classy woman player who will be a great representative for us and for the game of pool. We have lot of new stuff in works and look forward to working with her for the years to come,” said president of Tiger Products, Inc., Tony Kalamdaryan.

Today two long time Leaders in their Fields announce they will work together to address the needs of the Market Place. Championship LLC and Chicago Gaming will join forces for Sales and Marketing to...

Iwan Simonis Cloth Signs on as the new Title Sponsor
of the former Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour. “œThe basic operations, format and
added monies of the tour events will remain the same for the players.
However our room owners and sponsors will see added benefits as a result of
this change”, stated Mike Janis the tours founder.  Janis added “œThe change
in the title sponsorship will now allow us to give our sponsors increased
advertising and sales opportunities along with allowing us to be more
flexible in the sponsors we accept as we can now offer sponsorship to
additional products and cue brands. The room owners will see reduced rates
in tournament fees along with additional benefits related to Simonis Cloth when hosting events as a result of Iwan Simonis Cloths sponsorship.”

Silver Cup has been manufacturing colors to match our wide selection of colors for years so it seemed very natural said Fred Cohen, Championship’s president.

We’ve worked together when ever we’ve introduced a new color of cloth to make sure the market would have a matching chalk to use.  We can now boast that we have 31 colors of Championship Cloth and we have a Silver Cup Chalk to match them ALL.