By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Remember Kurt Hulton’s 1934 photograph of Grand Central? Soft shafts of light streaming down on the tiny, doll-like people meeting and parting and hurrying. But exactly three-quarters of a century later, any reader of this magazine thinks: oh, just out of the frame of...
By James Zug
During the JPMorgan Tournament of Champions, one special event occurred 17 blocks north of Grand Central. It was a sneak-peek screening of Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story. Directed by Josh Easdon and produced by Beth Rasin, the documentary tells the biography of the world’s...
By Vidya Rajan
Photos by Jay D. Prince/SquashMagazine.com
Two years ago, Seattle was hit with an anomalous wind storm that wiped out the power of half the city. It just so happened that the U.S. Junior Open was being held in Seattle that year, and its starting date coincided with the...
Two months ago in Squash Magazine, I began sharing with our readers a vision I’ve had for a squash mecca in my Publisher’s Note. At the time I wrote those columns, I hadn’t really put much thought into existing facilities in this country other than a passing mention of...
By Lee Stabert
Photos by Dale Walker/DaleWalkerPhoto.com
In squash, you can never underestimate the ability of your opponent to pull out that miracle scrape. This fall, when U.S. SQUASH made the last-minute decision to cancel the beloved U.S. Five Man (now U.S. Five Person) Championship, it inspired some impassioned grassroots organizing and...
By Hope Prockop
In the four weeks between US Team trials and our departure for the 16th Women’s World Teams Championships in Cairo, I was filled with enormous excitement and a healthy dose of anxiety. I was overjoyed to have earned another chance to represent the USA and play top notch...
By Jennifer Gabler
Photos courtesy of U.S. Squash
Urban Programs In General
Since 1996, the squash community has been assisting inner-city middle and high school students through programs known as “urban squash.” SquashBusters in Boston was the original program, combining equal parts of academic tutoring and squash coaching in an after school...
By Beth Rasin
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
The excitement, energy and electricity of the world’s largest spectator squash event, played under the breathtaking chandeliers of Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall in front of tens of thousands of New Yorkers, is what has distinguished the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions as one...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
When you are the first person from your country ever to receive its highest recognition for arts, sports, science or humanity, you probably feel as though you are not entitled to lose the World Open.
That is the degree of status which Nicol David has...
By Beth Rasin
From the host venue to the 200 players participating, Howe Cup 2008 exemplified the love of the game that inspired the creation of this team event in 1928 and has carried it to new heights 80 years later. It was particularly fitting that just two months after...