By James Zug
Robert W. Callahan died in January 2015 at the age of fifty-nine. He was the coach of the Princeton men’s team for thirty-two years, retiring in 2013 after a diagnosis of brain cancer. His record was 324-84, with three national championships and ten Ivy League titles. He...
By James Zug
During the NUSEA leadership conference, US Squash’s CEO Kevin Klipstein awarded the President’s Cup to William E. Simon, Jr. for his many decades of dedication, support and leadership in the game.
Bill Simon first took up squash in 1969 as a freshman at Williams College, when his tennis...
By James Zug
In January 2015 the National Urban Squash & Education Association held a gala weekend in New York.
In January 1995, the idea of an after-school youth enrichment program existed only on paper—literally, in a seven-page paper, “Bringing Squash Down from the Ivory Tower.” Greg Zaff wrote it for...
By James Zug
Redemption is a tricky tiger to ride. You hold match balls in the finals of the world championship. You are just one point away, serving for the match, victory is on your racquet.
And then it doesn’t happen. You lose. It is awful. It is devastating. The dream...
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 started playing squash in the early 1970s. At the time, there was just one full-time coach in the country and, as he writes in The...
By James Zug
This summer Henri Salaun and Hashim Khan both died. It was like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, connected by their years together battling each other and at the same time fomenting the American Revolution and building the United States and then, fifty years to the day after...
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 the flagship of a new era. It had glamour (Woody Allen filmed a scene for his 1979 film Manhattan there; Alan Alda and Brian DePalma...
By James Zug
Look at the list of top eight title winners in the world: seven of the best players ever and a guy the casual observer hasn’t heard of. It’s Mike Corren, the Australian known universally by the nickname Moose. He’s reached 38 in the world; he’s ranked 78...
By James Zug
It was a weekend of firsts. It was the 102nd time that the country gathered to play its national squash championship. Yet even after more than a century, so much was new at the annual conclave.
It was the first time the National Singles was held in Virginia. The Boar’s Head hosted the weekend at...