By James Zug
Grand Central Terminal. It is a magical place. It is the monumental building, weighty with history and grandeur. It is the largest rail terminal in the world—terminal not station: Grand Central is a destination. Trains terminate there. It is not a place you simply breeze through.
A total...
By Bill Buckingham
In 1969, Vassar College declined an offer from Yale University to merge institutions. Instead it became the first and only of the original “Seven Sister” schools to become co-ed (Radcliffe was later absorbed by Harvard University). Forty four years later, head coach Jane Parker, forced by circumstances...
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...
by Satya Seshadri and Dov Kleiner
In 1968, Dr. Quentin Hyder, an Englishman playing at the New York Athletic Club, snuck the nose of the softball game under the U.S. hardball squash tent by launching the first major softball tournament to be played on American soil. Graham Sharman, from Heights...
by Richard Eaton
It felt as though the splash created at the U.S. Open, by awarding equal prize money to women, had sent ripples all the way across the Atlantic to the world's most venerable tournament.
The ninety-two-year-old British Open saw Nicol David get back on track as a world-beater by...
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 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...
Who should wear eye protection?
Everyone.
Only hackers get hurt.
Wrong. Studies have shown that A players are injured as frequently as D players.
Doctors can fix my eye even if I get hit.
Wrong. Surgical results for traumatized eyes are usually disappointing. Nothing is as good as the normal eye. The best treatment is always prevention.
I...