WEST LIBERTY, Iowa -- Pat Diveney says that getting only six hours of sleep a day has taken its toll. "That's the dedication you have to have," he said. The hours of lost sleep have paid off, though.

You see I made the cover of Playboy in 1989," Richard Black said, grinning, as he pointed to the bombshell in a girly pose with one of his custom-made pool cues. Esquire, Texas Monthly, the New York ...