Phil Leis Turns Ninety

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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Milo Miller (L) and Dan Hogan

Squash—A Game for the Ages

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...
Outside The Glass · Ep.95 Nathan Clarke
I Love You, But I Wanna Win! How the Athletic Club of Columbus, Ohio, built an eighty-woman squash league in two years! By Karen Arango The Athletic Club of Columbus is different from most other clubs that offer squash. With the building being over a century old, weight-bearing pillars throughout the building...