World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association chairman Sir Rodney Walker has expressed concern over future association backing. The news comes after two major WPBSA sponsors, Saga Insurance and 888.com, pulled out of sponsorship contracts two weeks ago for the organization’s Masters and world championship tournaments, respectively.
The sponsors reportedly did so in reaction to betting [...]

Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria’s oldest privately held press service, reported Saturday that Brussels had begun pressuring Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev to reign in the new EU member state’s gambling scene.
The press agency charged that EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy and others were impeding Sofia officials’ attempts to amend the [...]