Outside The Glass · Ep.95 Nathan Clarke
Editor’s Note: While writing this article and as a result of what happened in the course of his match with twelve-year-old Milo Miller, Dan was diagnosed with both Early-Stage Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s (Lewy Body Syndrome). In his closing paragraphs, he discusses what this has meant for him and how...
Western Lane
By Chetna Maroo
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
by James Zug
Chetna Maroo’s debut novel—short and tight, at 150-pages it is really a novella—is set in the 1980s in Luton, a town north of London, and revolves around a Gujarati Indian immigrant family. The mother has just died, and the father...
Denis L. Bourke and Robert H. Eather
Squash Magazine (Nov. 2021) published a feature article (Ref. #1): "The Ratings Game - An Analysis of US Squash Ratings." In the article the authors showed that the Club Locker ratings – now known as the Universal Squash Rating (USR) – based...
Steve Line tells the stories behind some of his most famous images, including Awad v. Jahangir in 1982, Jahangir in 1988 and Willstrop & Matthew in 2009.
Outside The Glass · Ep.90 Steve Line—Classic Photographs
US Squash receives many requests to participate in and work with young men and women in their educational pursuits, whether for a school project, summer internship, to satiate a specific curiosity or otherwise. One such request came from Nehal Ramlukan. Nehal was introduced to us with a goal, a...
Manek Mathur, one of the most dominant and influential professional doubles players of the past decade, has announced his retirement from the Squash Doubles Association Pro Tour. New York City-based Mathur will bow out at the top of the world rankings and make his final appearance at the historic...
by James Zug
When I was working at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a lot of fellow journalists asked why I was there, since the U.S. was not competing.
It was an easy answer. The Commonwealth Games are far and away squash’s biggest moment. Every four years the Games expose...
By Noel Rubinton
Last October, as he approached his ninetieth birthday, Phil Leis knew exactly where he wanted to be that milestone day—on the squash court.
Leis got in touch with one of his regular partners at PVD Squash in Providence, Stefano Crema, and arranged to play. Only when they got...
One of the benefits of the U.S. Open arriving at Drexel University in 2011 has been a myriad of interactions between the squash community and Drexel professors.
Eric Zillmer and Nyree Dardarian are two great examples of the integration. As Drexel’s athletic director and a neuroscience professor, Zillmer played a...