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...
By James Zug It was about storytelling. Beneath the carapace of elegance and the thick scrim of black-tie and evening gowns and silver scoops of potato...
By James Zug April 2013 was another extraordinary month in the extraordinary life of Victor Elmaleh. The ninety-four year-old Elmaleh (pronounced El-Mali) went to work...
By James Zug This past year, three nonagenarians and one great writer died, leaving our squash landscape a lot less vivid. These four men were...

Run to the Roar Excerpt

By James Zug Photos by Dick Druckman Squash Magazine’s senior writer James Zug is back with another book. In the summer of 2003 we proudly ran...
By James Zug It is that time of year again. In between Labor Day and New Year’s, the vast majority of books are published. Since squash...

The Two Swedes

By James Zug New York was the crucible and Uptown was its red-hot center. Opened in the mid-1970s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Uptown was...
By James Zug The 2011 (Part Two) U.S. National Intercollegiate Doubles Championships came to Philadelphia as a part of the U.S. Open’s first weekend. After...
Two Squash Manuals By James Zug The G Spot: A Book about Squash Tony Griffin CreateSpace, 2014 Tony Griffin is a stalwart. He grew up in New Zealand and...
By James Zug 1989 We had lost to Harvard in the regular season in 1989, 6-3 in Cambridge. A week later we beat them in...