POOL SHARK: Robin Bell of Cypress is...

By Chris Foster and Michael Flagg

June 6, 1991 12 AM PT

POOL SHARK: Robin Bell of Cypress is again the women’s professional world nine-ball champion. She won a 32-player invitational last weekend at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, netting a cool $10,000. . . . A player since she was a teen-ager, Bell says she won the five-day tournament because of her practice: two hours daily at home while her three children are in school.

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Chris Foster is a former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered UCLA football and basketball, USC basketball, the Kings and the Ducks. He grew up in San Clemente, arriving long before Richard Nixon came to town. As a teen, he surfed, played football and basketball, and fell in love with sports journalism. Foster died Dec. 13, 2023.