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  • by The Squashist on May 25, 2011
    I just joined the Cityview Racquet Club, a relatively new club which boasts 7 Har-Tru clay tennis courts, 3 singles squash courts, and 1 doubles squash court. Not too long ago the venerable Printing...
  • by The Squashist on May 19, 2011
    One of the interesting things about the game of golf is the fact that the scores are inputted following the round of play and one's handicap is calibrated accordingly. It means that a player knows...
  • by Anonymous on May 18, 2011
    Women’s squash is at a crossroads. I have written in this blog about huge strides that we have made with women’s doubles in the last year, but the women’s game as a whole —...
  • by The Squashist on May 13, 2011
    Jag har noterat den här bloggen att min mor var född i Sverige och att jag är en elev i svenska. Mycket tyvärr dog min lärare i svenska, men jag fortfarande läser svenska, kallas oftast på en...
  • by The Squashist on May 3, 2011
    England's National Racketball Championships will be held May 6 - 8 at the Edgbaston Priory Club! Or so England's squash association tells us. That's because in England the squash association is...
  • by The Squashist on Apr 30, 2011
    If things were named honestly, that would be an improvement, yes? Take the West Side Highway, New York City’s major north-south roadway that lurches alongside the Hudson River. That should be...
  • by The Squashist on Apr 26, 2011
    The world is an unfair place, and one place where the disparity between fairness and reality is painfully evident is in the paychecks of top athletes.  "ESPN The Magazine" recently published a...
  • by The Squashist on Apr 24, 2011
    My nemesis Schumacher recently stopped thrashing me in squash long enough to toot his own horn. Hard to see, I realize, but there he is, brandishing an inflatable saxophone while frantically...
  • by The Squashist on Apr 19, 2011
    How many times have you introduced an athletic friend to squash and had them running enthusiastically all over the court, only to have them call you later that day or the next and say, “Man, my...
  • by Tracy Gates on Apr 13, 2011
    The Last Printing House 5.5 team I’m about twenty minutes late. Maybe half an hour, when I get off the elevator on the 7th floor of the Harvard Club. The first match of the men’s 5.5...
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