We don't talk a lot about snooker here at FanHouse because, really, does any American care at all about snooker? (Here's the Wikipedia entry if you're not quite sure what snooker is.) But we do talk a fair amount about streakers, so when a streaker invades the world of snooker, it's worth a (safe for work) look:
That was a streaker delay during Ronnie O'Sullivan's 18-8 victory over Ali Carter at the 2008 world snooker championship yesterday in Sheffield, England. And it's very big news in England, where The Telegraph says streaker Mark Roberts is "on a hot streak" and The Sun makes Roberts a bigger story than O'Sullivan. NFL fans should get ready to see Roberts when American football returns to London next year.
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Streaker Invades Snooker Championship
Posted May 6th 2008 11:22AM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: Random Acts of Sport
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. I can't believe you didn't have a "snooker" tag to file this one under. What a horrible oversight. Maybe you could combine this with the "cricket" tag, forming a Voltron-esque "Games Brits Play" uber-tag with like three posts.
I actually had heard of snooker long ago, when I had a billiards game for my old Atari 800XL and that was one of the options. I think this might be the first time I've ever heard of someone actually playing the game, though. Who knew it was real?
Posted at 12:26PM on May 6th 2008 by Trogdor
2. this might liven up the pau hana pool league!!!
Posted at 5:17PM on May 6th 2008 by victoria
3. Have not heard much about snooler lately but I dis play some in college over 50 years ago,
Posted at 5:26PM on May 6th 2008 by Robert
4. Did you say "Snookered"? I thought you said Spitzered. Funny thing is that this streaker and Eliot Spitzer are the least bit embarrassed being video taped naked or having corrupted the position of Attorney General in order to protect associated Organized Crime families such as those who conveyed a death threat against the whistle-blower to the bankruptcy fraud by professionals in the Worldcom / MCI case.
Posted at 5:37PM on May 6th 2008 by DeathThreatVictim
5. So.... what point was he trying to make? I thought streaking went out in the '70s.I guess it did make the snooker match less boring.What is snooker?
Posted at 6:22PM on May 6th 2008 by Michele Beaver
6. Snooker, snooker, what'n'ell is snooker. I thought that was what illiterate people did in the backs of abandoned, rusty vehicles. Live and learn and who cares about the streaker. We live in a totally insane society, so why should exhibitionists be singled out for contempt...or whatever goes with the position.
Posted at 6:26PM on May 6th 2008 by Milos W. B. Dobroslavic
7. Why can't women ever streak?
Posted at 6:47PM on May 6th 2008 by JOE HARRISON
8. That wasn't steaking, that was stripping and hiding. Take it from one who knows... Streaking is all about the run through, and hopefully getting out the other side. The bottom of a pool table is NOT an exit. This guy gives a bad name to streakers everywhere...
Posted at 6:48PM on May 6th 2008 by Bill
9. How can they want to arrest him... they DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON HIM. HMMM, come to think of it, NEITHER DOES HE ! (BUTT then again,I almost think this comment was BARELY worth it!) L.O.L.
Posted at 7:56PM on May 6th 2008 by Jay Leonard
10. I THINK THIS IS FUNNY. WE ARE TOO SEXUALLY HUNG UP IN PROTESTANT CULT RIDDEN AMERICA!!!
Posted at 9:42AM on May 8th 2008 by Roxy