By James Zug
New York was the crucible and Uptown was its red-hot center. Opened in the mid-1970s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Uptown was the flagship of a new era. It had glamour (Woody Allen filmed a scene for his 1979 film Manhattan there; Alan Alda and Brian DePalma...
By Richard Eaton
Photos Courtesy: Lynn Khoo
Is it the beginning of the end for the highest profile player of all time? The question had been regarded by many as unthinkable but it certainly entered a few people’s minds after the relentlessly feted Nicol David suffered one of the biggest shocks of all time.
World champion a record...
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
For all the buzz surrounding up-and-coming teams like St. Lawrence and Rochester early in the season, it was one of the most storied programs in college squash history that dominated the championship season.
Harvard swept Trinity to win the men’s team title, and Crimson players Amanda Sobhy and Ali...
By James Zug
It was a weekend of firsts. It was the 102nd time that the country gathered to play its national squash championship. Yet even after more than a century, so much was new at the annual conclave.
It was the first time the National Singles was held in Virginia. The Boar’s Head hosted the weekend at...
Reviving an award won by the likes of Mark Talbott, Demer Holleran, and Marty Clark for the first time in thirteen years, the US Squash National Teams Committee nominated F. Gilpin “Gilly” Lane for the 2013 United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year Award for the most outstanding performance by a Team USA...
During the well-attended signature Saturday night dinner gathering of the 102nd National Championships in Charlottesville, US Squash honored Jaffray Woodriff with a US Squash Special Recognition Award for his leadership and substantial contributions to squash in the U.S.
The building of the University of Virginia’s McArthur Squash Center at Boar’s Head Sports Club, where the...
By James Zug
The eightieth J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions will be remembered for the
long-awaited arrival of a queen and the wildly exaggerated, misreported demise of a prince.
Nicol David had done everything in the game of squash, except play a competitive point at the most iconic squash tournament in the...
“I am not sure I can pin it down,” John Nimick said after the 2014 JP Morgan Tournament of Champions, “but I believe I have either played in or produced about fifty events with Don over thirty years, and in that period he has become a partner, collaborator, coach, advisor, role model and dear, dear friend. Most importantly, he...
By James Zug
Photos by Ham Biggar
At the eighth-annual Tub o’ Towels Cleveland Classic last month in Cleveland, Ohio, US Squash presented the 2013 W. Stewart Brauns, Jr., Award to Hamilton Fisk Biggar, III. The Brauns is one of the most prestigious awards in American squash. Created after the death of...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
It happened in a challenge match. Jose and I were both seniors, the two captains of the team, battling it out on a dark, winter night in New Hampshire for the number-one spot on the varsity ladder of our college team. The match went...