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Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins - from the most intoxicating figure in all of sport to a sad, hollowed-out caricature

As volatile and trigger-happy as Doc Holliday in a Dodge City saloon, Alex Higgins was a gambler and a gunfighter - a stiff-shafted, 56-inch Burwat Champion snooker cue his firearm of choice. An ...
Reuters

"Hurricane" blew winds of change through stuffy sport

LONDON (Reuters) - Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, the twice world snooker champion who died Saturday aged 61, dragged a staid and stuffy sport into the modern era with his outrageous talent and scandalous ...