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	<title>The Direct</title>
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	<description>Stories on Squash</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Double Match Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous entry, I wrote about game ball and match ball, the twin verbal scourges on our scoring system. What I didn&#8217;t address was the issue of double match balls. Starting last month, the PSA has revised it terrible tiebreaker scoring system. No longer was it reported 11-10 (5-3) or something (meaning the actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new PSA scoring system (same scoring to 11, point a rally, but simpler way of reporting it when the game goes into overtime) is wrongheaded on two accounts, and it is a travesty that they did not take this opportunity to make changes. My first beef is that they did not get rid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Illustrated Covers</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/sports-illustrated-covers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of magazine covers featuring squash, Sports Illustrated has been on my mind recently. It is the fiftieth anniversary of the first (and probably, the way things are going, last) time a squash player was featured on the cover of the world&#8217;s most famous sports magazine. 
The  cover  of the 10 February 1958 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker Covers</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/new-yorker-covers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/new-yorker-covers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from my framer three precious things. Since I never want to have a squash court at my house—besides the fact that I am sure I&#8217;ll never be able to afford it,  I too much like the social side of squash, the random locker-room chatter, the serendiptious gossip that is absent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Touch My Robe—Media Watch V</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/dont-touch-my-robe%e2%80%94media-watch-v/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/dont-touch-my-robe%e2%80%94media-watch-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the season has slowed down to a dull, rat-a-tat-tat roar, here is the vaunted, valuable and sometimes venomous list of The Direct&#8217;s Top Ten Media Watch™ citings for American squash this winter. Let&#8217;s get snarky and sassy. 
10. Two articles on the urban squash movement: one in the  Philadelphia Inquirer  on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rule 13.1.3</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/rule-1313/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/rule-1313/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 06:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest unknown squash publication in North America has just published its final hardcopy issue this week. It was started in 1993. It had great artwork, very insightful articles, a regular and rich debate between two leading squash figures and an unparalleled humor section. Every insider read it. Subscriptions were free and people in seventeen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is To Be Done About Doubles?</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/what-is-to-be-done-about-doubles/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/what-is-to-be-done-about-doubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend one hundred and ninety-eight players swatted the  ball at the national doubles in Philadelphia. It was another spectacular event. Only nine pairs entered the women&#8217;s open, but they were an extremely strong group. Trevor McGuinness took the men&#8217;s open, becoming the youngest player to win it since a twenty-one year-old Tommy Page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Nickname Bracket</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/college-nickname-bracket/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/college-nickname-bracket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This very minute is the start of the greatest forty hours of the year. It is the first day of spring and March Madness begins at noon today. Almost all of the thirty-two first-round games that are played today and tomorrow are not in primetime, but rather in the middle of the day.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston &#038; Briars Say Bye-Bye</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/boston-briars-say-bye-bye/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/boston-briars-say-bye-bye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five Grover Clevelands. That is what safecracker Jimmy Willy walked away with on a rain-swept evening in Allston, Mass last weekend in the biggest legal heist in U.S. squash history. 
It was the finals of the Players Cup Championships, or as the marvelous mandarins of squash dubbed it,  Tha Play-ah.  The four-wall permanent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semper Fi</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/semper-fi/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/semper-fi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two thousand three hundred and twenty-nine. That was how many people were clicked in as they filed into Halsey Field House at the United States Naval Academy to watch a squash match at the national intercollegiate individuals last weekend. It was a record crowd for a U.S. squash match.  
Nobody paid to get into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone With the Wind</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/gone-with-the-wind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/gone-with-the-wind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, there was just one thing that came to mind when you heard the phrase Richmond squash: the Price-Bullington Invitational. The PBI is a classic amateur tournament that features top college kids who are flown in from their campuses to the Country Club of Virginia for the weekend. (Started in 1970, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spider Bite</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/spider-bite/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/spider-bite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February is the quiet month in American sports. Except for the squash community, when it is nuts, with two or three marquee events each weekend. Living in Washington, one tournament I like to catch is Baltimore&#8217;s famous—or rather infamous—BIDS. 
Baltimore has a rich squash history and none more interesting than its fierce, sometimes absurd involvement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Lives</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/atlas-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/atlas-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I spent eight hours in Ferris Athletic Center. Not much in the squash world is going to keep me in one place for that long, but this was no ordinary event. It was Princeton v. Trinity, which in the past couple of seasons has become the marquee squash day in the country. 
Atlas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/serendipity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/serendipity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my tenth Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions. Every year when I head to my first match I think that this is the year when I will be blasé about it, when I will ho-hum and snigger and, with an apathetic wave of my hand, write it off as a been-there, done-that affair long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bermuda</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/bermuda/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/bermuda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a little sunshine with which to start the new year. A few weeks ago I sailed to Bermuda for the 2007 World Open. 
Bermuda had changed a lot from when I was last there in 1985. Tourists have stopped coming (Trimingham&#8217;s is gone from Front Street), with reinsurance minions taking their place. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubles Centennial; Squash Mag Turns 10; Media Watch IV: CCQ</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/doubles-centennial-squash-mag-turns-10-media-watch-iv-ccq/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/doubles-centennial-squash-mag-turns-10-media-watch-iv-ccq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Racquet Club of Philadelphia celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of their lovely clubhouse on South Sixteenth Street. A couple of years ago we spent a lot of time on conference calls trying to come up with a way to properly acknowledge this fact, as it was also necessarily the centennial of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roseland; Whippanong; SquashSmarts; Media Watch III</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/roseland-whippanong-squashsmarts-media-watch-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/roseland-whippanong-squashsmarts-media-watch-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Open rocked New York. Again. Literally. Twenty years ago, Tom and Hazel Jones hosted the Open at the Palladium, a night club on 14th Street. Now the Open was back in Gotham, kicking it live at the Roseland Ballroom. 
Roseland Ballroom is a classic rock-and-roll venue, up on 52nd Street, just off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Wing; McQueenie</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/west-wing-mcqueenie/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/west-wing-mcqueenie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sojourning in the nation&#8217;s capital has made me slightly more attuned to the political, despite the quirky fact that because I live in the District of Columbia I do not have the right to vote. (This  taxation without representation   system is still happening at home two hundred and twenty-four years after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HQ Move; US Squash Retreat; World&#8217;s Greatest Collection</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/hq-move-us-squash-retreat-worlds-greatest-collection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/hq-move-us-squash-retreat-worlds-greatest-collection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been a one of transition for American squash. The USSRA moved its headquarters from Bala Cynwyd to New York. The association was founded in 1904 and yet until 1974 its official headquarters rotated every two years, to the home or office of the new president. HQ was in Buffalo in 1967-1969 when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pan Am Games; John Friel; Episcopal Academy</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/pan-am-games-john-friel-episcopal-academy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/pan-am-games-john-friel-episcopal-academy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ho-hum. Another Pan American Games. More medals for American squash players. From all the desultory coverage in the mainstream American media, you probably missed it. I was in Manchester for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain was agog—front-page, above-the-fold, top-of-the-hour, breaking-news coverage. People were lusting after my press pass. The Queen came for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bash; Louisville; Saturday</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/bash-louisville-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/bash-louisville-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was impossible not to be blown away by the CitySquash&#8217;s 4th annual, gawking, gossiping and greening Bash in June in New York. It raised $350,000. It was historic to get Jahangir Khan and Mark Talbott on court together again, more than twenty years after their watershed encounters on the WPSA hardball tour.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyder; Doug McLaggan; SWPHI</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/hyder-doug-mclaggan-swphi-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/hyder-doug-mclaggan-swphi-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hyder was just played in New York again. It is the oldest continuously-held softball tournament in the country. Last September in San Francisco I saw the finalists from the first men&#8217;s draw in 1969, Graham Sharman and Dave O&#8217;Loughlin, and both men are surprised as I am about how the Hyder has grown to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softball Doubles; Liechtenstein; Can You Kazoo?</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/softball-doubles-liechtenstein-can-you-kazoo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jameszug.com/softball-doubles-liechtenstein-can-you-kazoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 20:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from nearly a month of traveling. I first went to Johannesburg and Cape Town for the South African Jesters’ fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Most the squash we played was softball doubles. In Joburg we even had the coincidence of having all four of the inventors of the game (in 1986 in England) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tournament of Champions</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/tournament-of-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tenth annual Grand Central squashslamajamarama was, as always, the biggest scene of the U.S. squash season. When the  Tournament of Champions  does finally depart from Grand Central, as it surely must some sad day in the hopefully far future, we will look back on our late winter sojourns in Vanderbilt Hall with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baset Ashfaq; Baltimore Heart Attack; Quaker Squash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I have been working for a few years on a book project with Paul Assasiante on the story of Trinity squash, and this season has been the most improbable yet. The arrival of Baset Ashfaq seemed to spell instant doom for the rest of the nation’s top programs   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Racquets; Sears Trophy; Media Watch II—Monitor, Harvard Mag and New Yorker</title>
		<link>http://blog.jameszug.com/gold-racquets-sears-trophy-media-watch-ii%e2%80%94monitor-harvard-mag-and-new-yorker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got a copy of the program for the December 2006 Gold Racquets from tournament director Mark Hinckley. He and co-director Peter MacGuire are stepping into the famous shoes of Treddy Ketcham. They had a fantastic weekend:  There was the Whiffenpoofs at the Sunday brunch, players from a dozen countries and still the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rummy Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest jolt of media hoopla for the U.S. squash world this fall was certainly about Donald H. Rumsfeld’s game. David Cloud did a big piece on Rummy’s racquetwork in the  New York Times  on Sunday 24 September and it gave rise to a number of interesting tangents.

Cloud (his name faintly echoes Misty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Saints Go Marching In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I suddenly felt like it was 1979 and I was on Lexington and 86th Street. In Washington I had drinks not once but twice with Harry Saint and Nancy Gengler. The Saints were in town to play in a court tennis tournament (they live within fifty feet—or fifty yards, I can&#8217;t remember, [...]]]></description>
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