Publishers Note Crazy or Viable?

By Jay D. Prince So last month I waxed on and on about this grandiose idea for a squash club with 20 singles courts and four doubles courts that would be convertible between hardball and...

Publishers Note Dreaming Big

By Jay D. Prince I caught myself daydreaming the other day. Not about becoming a world champion—it’s too late for that. Maybe a better way to put it would be to say that I’ve got...

Publishers Note Fuel for the Soul

By Jay D. Prince As Kevin Klipstein encourages us all to play squash to help overcome the craziness that is our current economy, I’d be first in line to fully support that plan. But I’d take it a...

Publishers Note Aging, um, Gracefully?

By Jay D. Prince Okay, I’m officially feeling old. Or maybe I’m feeling experienced. Or maybe it’s the feeling that comes with playing this game for a lot of years. I’m really not sure. But there...

Publishers Note Changing Focus

By Jay D. Prince It’s taken me 45 years to figure this out, but our outcome oriented society doesn’t mesh very well with sports. At least not as players of sports. Take just about any sport,...

Publishers Note Diamond Notes

By Jay D. Prince Last month, I shared with you the highs of being a parent at my son’s baseball game as opposed to always being his coach. I’ve had several people approach me about...

Publishers Note High Fives and Fist Bumps

By Jay D. Prince As much as I love playing squash, I am also a baseball nut. From the time I started playing pick-up games in my childhood neighborhood—where I was always the youngest and...

Publishers Note Why We Play

By Jay D. Prince I don’t know about you, but the reason I started playing squash was simple—it was a lot of fun. I’d seen it played a little bit when I was very young,...

Publishers Note Oversights

By Jay D. Prince Over the past 10 years, we’ve made our share of mistakes in this magazine. I’m not talking about typos, but rather oversights or errors of omission. At one point several years...

Publishers Note Dreams Extinguished

By Jay D. Prince We all know that the playing career of a professional athlete is limited to a finite number of years. In some sports, like professional football, players are lucky if their careers last...