Will’s World Go Mental
By Will Carlin
The target for competitive shooters is incredibly small. The fifty meter rifle target has a diameter roughly equal to the length of...
Will’s World Underdogs
By Will Carlin
My opponent was simply better.
That’s why I was down 1-0 in the finals of the then-called MSRA (now NY Squash) Boys 18...
Will’s World 37 Days
By Will Carlin
In May of 2009, a Google engineer named Matt Cutts sat at his desk and had an inspiration. By itself, this wasn’t...
Will’s World One More Point
By Will Carlin
I was hurting. Badly. It was a summer tournament, and it was hot. My soaked shirt clung to my torso, and the...
Will’s World Two of a Kind
By Will Carlin
Amr Shabana was walking away from me. The Maestro, as he is called by PSA Squash TV commentators Joey Barrington and Paul Johnson, had just won the semifinals...
Will Carlin’s Experience With Being Hit
At the request of Randy Kahn in the Southwest SRA, Will Carlin was asked to write an open letter to their membership two years...
Will’s World The Simpson Paradox
By Will Carlin
Nicolas Mueller is the best Swiss squash player ever. This past April, he became Switzerland’s highest-ranked player ever (No. 20 in the world) and, a week later,...
Will’s World Seven Faults
By Will Carlin
In the fall of 1962, John McPhee got a phone call from his father.
McPhee was not yet the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer he would later become; in fact,...
Will’s World Handles With Care
By Will Carlin
Just before the start of the 1921 Wimbledon finals, the two opponents— Philadelphia’s “Big Bill” Tilden and Brian Norton from South Africa—posed...
Will’s World Unintended Consequences
By Will Carlin
In 1897, a retired professor from a small northeast region of France, was named the Governor-General of French Indochina. Paul Doumer, who...