The British, like their American cousins, can`t get enough sports on television. Hungry viewers tune in for long hours to watch the British Open golf tournament, the Wimbledon tennis championships and ...

In 1988, snooker star Steve Davis was named Sports Personality of the Year. Davis became the first player to complete snooker's triple crown in a single season in that year as he won the World ...

In the months leading up to the World Championship, Steve Davis had won three of the season's five preceding ranking titles and both the Benson and Hedges Masters and Irish Masters. This golden run of ...

Others will fondly recall the 1980s; an era before the explosion in popularity of English football when snooker players and not footballers were this country's biggest sporting celebrities. If snooker ...