Matchroom is excited to announce that the World Pool Championship 2023 will take place in Kielce, Poland, in partnership with the Polish Billiard Association from February 1-5. The tournament will be held at the Targi Kielce Exhibition & Congress Centre and will be broadcast live on Viaplay in Poland, Scandinavia, the Baltics, and on Sky Sports in the UK, DAZN in the USA, Canada, Spain, and Italy. Poland has a strong pool player base with 17 players listed on the Live Nineball World Rankings, ten of whom are in the top 100. The tournament will feature $325,000 in total prize money with the winner taking home $60,000. It will also feature a double-elimination format to improve the quality of the tournament and will be available to watch on multiple platforms.

Kielce is no stranger to big Matchroom events and last hosted the 2012 World Pool Masters where it was Poland’s own Karol Skowerski who came out on top. Since then, Poland has become a breeding ground for top Nineball players with 17 currently listed on the Live Nineball World Rankings. Of which, ten are inside the world’s top 100 including World No. 7 Wiktor Zielinski, World No. 15 Konrad Juszczyszyn, World No. 16 Mieszko Fortunski, and Wojciech Szewczyk, Tomasz Kapłan, Karol Skowerski, Daniel Macioł,, Sebastian Batkowski, Mateusz Śniegocki, Radosław Babica.

It is arguably the greatest individual challenge that a player could face in the international game. And on Saturday, it is likely to be Kyle Walker's, a defender who has spent a decade at the top of the sport, whose raw abilities marked him out as a star but who has developed a technical and intellectual understanding of his role that at 32 years old marks him out as one of the great right backs of his generation. He will need every scintilla of his quality, experience, and pure pace if he is to slow the advancing tide that will bear down on him at the Al Bayt Stadium. Kylian Mbappe looks to be an unstoppable force. Walker and his England teammates need to find a way to slow him down.

For 55 minutes against the Washington Capitals on Sunday the Tampa Bay Lightning played as well as they have all season long. The won the 5v5 battle, the power play battle, and the penalty kill battle. Sure, things slid off the rails a little at the end when they allowed needless goals to Lars Eller and Garnet Hathaway, but overall it was one of the strongest games they’ve played over the first month and a half. Now, they just have to do it again. And again. And again. Consistency has not been consistent for a team that prides themselves on that being one of their best attributes. With 15 games under their belt the time for excuses seems to have run out and it’s time for them to be held accountable. Prior to the game on Sunday, Coach Cooper mentioned that some players in the room may not be all that happy with him so it’s likely that the relaxed, easy going coach may have turned up the intensity a bit.

Tampa Bay Lightning center Brayden Point was out of the lineup for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night, missing his team's 6-2 victory. Point did not take part in the team's morning skate. He returned to the Lightning lineup in Game 1 against the Colorado Avalanche after missing the previous two rounds, having suffered a lower body injury on May 14 in Game 7 of the first round against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Thank you so much for giving my family an update on this on your website. IIHF World Juniors Live

The 2022 Stanley Cup Final could be decided Friday night in Denver, with the Colorado Avalanche holding a 3-1 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Thank you so much for giving my family an update on this topic on your website. nfr live

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A personal reflection and write-up tied to 401 Channelside Drive, the venerable ice palace known as Amalie Arena. It's not about events at the arena as-so-much the building's story of how it got built. And how the story is not all out there.