Pastures New: Bob Callahan Retires From Princeton Squash After a Revolutionary Career
By James Zug
It was never supposed to work out like this. In the summer of 1981, Princeton’s athletic director asked Bob Callahan, newly-married IBM salesman, to be on a search committee to find a...
Ashour The Happiest Moment of His Life
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
There were many well-publicized reasons why Ramy Ashour’s capture of the British Open title—at a pioneering outdoor venue in Hull City’s soccer stadium—has carried him further along the road...
Massaro British Queen
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
There was a throw-away hint as to why the world’s most successful squash player might suffer her most startling defeat in four years, not long before the British Open...
Spahrs Dominate U.S. Father and Son
Last month the ninth U.S. Father & Son was held and it was no surprise that Chris and Carson Spahr won their first open title. Spahr has long equaled junior excellence.
Christian C.F. Spahr, Jr., known to everyone...
Tom & Hazel Jones-Hall of Fame Inductees
Thomas B. Jones (1935- )
Tom Jones was a pivotal and ebullient leader who revolutionized squash in America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. A Rochester native, Jones won the 1977 U.S. and...
Hanson Aims to Move Up U.S. and International Ladders
By Chris McClintick
As qualifying for the 2013 Delaware Investments U.S. Open squash championships began at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia on October 9, so did Chris Hanson’s professional squash life.
The twenty-two-year-old American’s debut against...
The Moose is Still Loose: Mike Corren, the All-Time Great You’ve Never Heard of
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...
Two Princeton Men Leave Enormous Legacies
By James Zug
It is not what you accomplish. It is what you overcome.
Charles Mallet-Prevost Brinton died in June 2011 at the age of ninety one. The last remaining national singles champion from the 1940s,...
The Strongest Tree: Amanda Sobhy
By James Zug
It is almost ten in the morning and Amanda Sobhy is finally coming to school. It is her senior year and she’s already been accepted to college and from outward appearances, she...
The Lion at Rest (And 180MPH)
Hours after Amanda Sobhy won the world juniors, the World Squash Federation sent out a press release, “Sobhy Soars to World Title Success,” declaring that she had become the first U.S. player to win...