The Arlen Specter US Squash Center: Building a Home for the Sport

The dream of a national home for squash in the U.S. Has been envisioned for decades. Having a critical mass of courts in one...

Opportunity in Chaos: Damien Mudge Retires After Record Doubles Career

by James Zug Damien Mudge has an intentional relationship with velocity. For twenty years he played professional squash doubles across North America. The very first...

The U.S. Wins World Championship – The Story of the 1980 World Juniors

Forty years ago, in March 1980, a half dozen enterprising, young women flew to Sweden for the first-ever World Junior Championships: Patrice McConnell Cormwell,...

Book Review: Lucky, Anil Nayar’s Story

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...

Outside the Glass: Head-Butt

This month’s episode of Outside The Glass, the squash podcast, is about photographs of a particular encounter, during the first round of the 1994...

DeRoy Leads Squash for Forty Years

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...

Squash News Cover is a Trip Down Memory Lane

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...

Community Perspectives: Growing Diversity in Squash

By Laura Trevelyan Laura Trevelyan is an award-winning journalist for the BBC, college squash parent and CitySquash board member. Squash in the U.S. is at an...

Outside the Glass: Qamar Zaman

Qamar Zaman was the original Conjuror, a magical player who a half century ago enthralled audiences around the world. British Open champion, world No.1...

The Ratings Game – An Analysis of US Squash Ratings

by Varun Fuloria, Rutwik Kharkar, and Ryan Rayfield What’s in a number? A lot, if you ask a player about their US Squash rating! Squash...