Sport For Life x 2

I get the question a half dozen times a week, usually after exchanging the required pleasantries, “you playing any squash?” almost immediately followed by,...

Squash Takes Center Stage at the Commonwealth Games

by James Zug When I was working at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a lot of fellow journalists asked why I was there, since...

Book Review: BIG DATA

One of the benefits of the U.S. Open arriving at Drexel University in 2011 has been a myriad of interactions between the squash community...

2020-2021 Milestones

2020-2021 Milestones   Deaths Marwan Mahmoud Abdelnaby Marwan Mahmoud died in August 2020 at age twenty-four. The Egyptian had starred at Penn and was getting a masters at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...