Three World Cup titles, two World Championship wins and one girlfriend stabbing him - Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins was certainly one of snooker’s most colourful and intriguing characters ...

Double world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died at the age of 61 after losing his battle against throat cancer. For the last 10 years he has had to endured the long battle with cancer.

Alex “Hurricane” Higgins, a two-time world champion of the billiards sport known as snooker who galvanized the game with his wild antics and quick play, was found dead Saturday at his home in ...

As sport’s global shutdown threatens to scupper the World Snooker Championship for the first time in the 43-year Crucible era, attention necessarily switches to one of its all-time greats. Alex ...

Then, in the early 1970s, Higgins, a working-class hustler and failed jockey born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, joined the professional snooker circuit, won his first world championship at 22, and ...

ALEX HIGGINS Until the robotic Stephen Hendry turned up as a 21-year-old world snooker champion in 1990, Alex "Hurricane" Higgins had been the youngest ever winner of the title, when he beat John ...

Anguished Jimmy White last night revealed he cried for hours after hearing his close friend Alex "Hurricane" Higgins had died. He said he had watched in agony as the emaciated snooker legend had ...

Alex Higgins was the two-times World Snooker champion from Northern Ireland whose speedy style of play helped turn the game into a must-watch sport. But, away from the table, he was a wild boy ...

Snooker hellraiser gave away special booze code as he was served by future world champ Former world champion Ken Doherty served drinks to his hero, Alex Higgins, as a youngster before turning ...

A snooker world champion who received a chilling threat from one of his greatest rivals has insisted the whole thing was blown out of proportion. Dennis Taylor is best known for securing Crucible ...

Three World Cup titles, two World Championship wins and one girlfriend stabbing him - Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins was certainly one of snooker’s most colourful and intriguing characters ...