How did squash get into the Olympic Games? Ned Edwards, a leader in the effort, tells the story. Outside The Glass · Ep. 96 Ned...

2023 Milestones

by James Zug Deaths Eric C. Fast Eric Fast died in July at the age of seventy-four. He served on the board of US Squash from 2004-2010...
The behind-the-scenes media master at the PSA for the past decade, Nathan Clarke dissects a half dozen of his best photographs. Outside The Glass ·...
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...
Steve Line tells the stories behind some of his most famous images, including Awad v. Jahangir in 1982, Jahangir in 1988 and Willstrop &...
By James Zug After three years in Charlottesville, the National Singles returned to Philadelphia for a large, exciting and record-extending tournament. The 106th annual championships...

Book Review: BIG DATA

One of the benefits of the U.S. Open arriving at Drexel University in 2011 has been a myriad of interactions between the squash community...
By James Zug Twenty-five years ago, the cover of Squash News, our predecessor magazine, featured fifty-three young athletes. That February 1996 issue was historic. It...
For forty years, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation has partnered with the game of squash. The roots of the relationship came in 1978, after the death...
Lucky: Anil Nayar’s Story—A Portrait of a Legendary Squash Champion By Jean Nayar (New York: Five Rivers Press, 2020). By James Zug Lucky is the biography of one...