By James Zug
This month is the 25th anniversary of the first U.S. national softball tournament. With the dominance of softball today in America—the mass conversions of the 1990s, the incredible retreat of hardball—it is strange to imagine that the first sanctioned softball nationals was held just a quarter century...
By Scott Leighton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
A few days before the individual competition kicked off the 2008 World Junior Men’s Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, the US Junior Men’s team spent a day sightseeing by taking a ferry across scenic Lake Lucerne and hiking to the top of Mount Pilatus. This...
By James Zug
On a bright, cloudless summer day, Mark Talbott is rushing to the Palo Alto train station to pick me up. He is late. He has borrowed a car from one of his Stanford squash players—the Talbotts are a one-car family—and the exchange took longer than it might have,...
By Joseph Dworetzky
Photos by Sam Sneed
Just before the game begins, there is a moment of quiet. A man walks through the glass door onto the empty squash court. He is dressed entirely in white except for a fedora the color of an old saddle. He holds a squash racquet...
By Jay D. Prince
Two years ago, US Squash made a bold decision to separate the U.S. Skill Level Championships from the U.S. Championships (Age Groups) with the long-term goal of creating a blow-out weekend “championship of the membership.” In 2007, the first independent event was a hit when it...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
David Palmer wondered if he would ever cut it at the top level again after beginning a new phase in his life in Massachusetts. But he did, and more besides.
With an epic victory in the British Open final at Liverpool he underlined a case...
By Ellie Pierce
It is a terrifying experience for us ‘oldies’ who played all rounds of play on the warm and cozy courts of the Liverpool Cricket Club located 20 minutes outside Liverpool center and then having to play the final match on the glass tour court with an audience who...
By Vidya Rajan
Photos by Dale Walker/DaleWalkerPhoto.com
This was the US Junior Gold Nationals, both the pinnacle and the grand finale of the junior squash season. Held at Demer Holleran’s Fairmount Athletic Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the event saw participation from 287 juniors in ten different divisions. The club was one...
By Jay D. Prince
Tradition. Tradition is the word we attach to activities, or customs or stories that we pass down from generation to generation. At the conclusion of the Indy 500, the winner hops out of his car and guzzles a huge bottle of cold milk while spilling most...
By Bill Buckingham
Photos by Debbie Bowden
Trevor McGuinness, with the help of right-wall teammate Whitten Morris, became the youngest ever winner of the U.S. Men’s Doubles Championship, defeating the top seeded duo of Morris Clothier and Scott Stoneburgh in the finals, contested at the Fairmount Athletic Club in King of...