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Red Room
|  Ibrahim Khan and Moustafa Bayoumy talk to Joe McManus.
To see the interview, please click here.
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Please Sir, May I have Another
|  Squash's intelligentsia have decided to let the IOC have another whack at them as they prepare to submit their bid for the 2024 Olympics.
To read the Inside the Games Article, please click here.
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PSA Issues Gag Order on Players
|  Squash players who contacted SquashMad.com to vent about PSA's new gag order called the gag order Stalinist in nature.
Disciplinary action has been threatened against players. To see SquashMad.com's article, please click here.
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Francis Gilpin Bartlett Lane Honored
|  Congratulations to Francis Gilpin Bartlett Lane.
Most of you know him as Gilly.
This past week the handsome, young man was honored by his high school and inducted into its Hall of Fame.
He lettered in squash, soccer and baseball for four years at Chestnut Hill Academy.
When he matriculated to the University of Pennsylvania, he played squash and later became the first Penn player to win the Skillman Award. He was a four-time All-American and captained the team his junior and senior years.
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Damn You, Harry Potter
|  The ridiculous game of Quidditch is sweeping across American college campuses and is now more popular than squash.
If only that dorky little kid preferred a squash racquet in his hand to a broom between his legs.
To see Salon's article on Quidditch, please click here.
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JIllig's Dream Realized
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Long time squash coach and CSA power broker John Illig has opened his magnificent new squash center at Middlebury College.
It is everything it was promised to be and more.
To see Middlebury's article, please click here.
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Hair
|  This awesome squash photo was taken by those intrepid squash reporters at SquashSite.
They work hard.
Please visit their site by clicking click here.
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Chris Walker's Vision Taking Shape
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Long time English great Chris Walker moved to San Diego to build an urban squash program. Years later, his vision is on the verge of greatness.
To see Access Youth Academy's video, please click here.
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Last Week's Question
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 Last week we asked "Was George Washington University correct to claim they won the 2012 C Division National Championship?"
The results:
71% No. They won the Summers Cup, which goes to College Squash's 17th ranked team. It is not a national championship.
29%. Yes.
It's the national championship tournament and they won the C Division. So, therefore they can rightly claim to be C Division National Champions.
The Comments:
- Eagerly awaiting the Middlebury Men's Squash National Championship banner-hanging ceremony for their 17th place finish in 2013 this winter!
- A "National Championship" for finishing 17th? Sounds like some serious "Beltway Spin".
- no - Same as with Junior Nationals
- It must really suck to be the 16th ranked team an lose each match at nationals, and then watch the team who is ranked lower than you pretend they are national champions.
- Disgraceful Wendy Lawrence but reallyl in keeping to your usual form
- So, if the 17th team is a national champion, then almost any team can say they either won the national championship, were a national finalist, reached the Final Four or the Elite Eight and be telling the truth?
- Shame on GW and their apologists. - Dear Wendy, Pretending to be a National Champion is shameful. Glad the Ezine reported it . You appear to be the one taking cheap shots because you got caught.
- same as any other divisional or age-group national championship (as distinguished from an open championship)- You're an idiot. - Has anyone asked Bob Callahan how he feels about GW's "National Championship" in 2012? - Give it a rest and admit you were incorrect
- champions in their division is champion in their division.
- 100% with Wendy on this one.
- Why couldn't they just say they won 'whatever' cup?
- Saying it is a national championship is not correct and is disrecpectful to the teams that actually won the national championship.
- Squash Ezine, why didn't you write that GW did the same thing for the women, claiming the C Division National Championship? http://blogs.gwhatchet.com/courtside/tag/kelly-barnes/ - The article by GW was correct.
- Yo BTW, the article headline from the GW website is "Colonials Clinch First National Championship" - Here's a link to U Penn's coach's profile. They finished 9th that year. He says: "The men's team won the 2012 Hoehn Cup and finished the season as the No. 9 team in the nation." Wyant is a class act. He certainly didn't write "U Penn won the B Division National Championship."
- Comical.
- Wendy Lawrence is a class act. I'm astounded you would accuse her of something like this. - They were the Summers Cup Champions, not the National Champions! - GW University must provide full disclosure
- Just did a quick google search. Interesting that no one before or after claimed that winning 17th place was the same as winning a national championship.
- Who cares??!!?? - Finishing 17th out of 63 teams does not equal a "National Championship.
- Shame on you, GW!
To see the responses, please click here.
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College Squash Has One Nat'l Champion
|  College Squash Association has an all-inclusive national championship tournament.
Every team, whether Division I, Division III or club team is invited to participate. The top 8 teams, based on the coach's poll are seeded to compete for a national championship.
The other teams, seeded by ranking in groups of 8, compete to improve their ranking. The top team in each bracket of 8 receives a Named Cup in recognition of their efforts.
According to College Squash Association's website:
The top eight teams in the nation compete in the "A" division of the men's National Team Championships for the national title and the Potter Cup. In the men's National Team Championships, teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Hoehn Cup in the "B" division. In the men's National Team Championships, teams ranked seventeenth to twenty-fourth compete for the Summers Cup in the "C" division. In the men's National Team Championships, teams ranked 25th to 32nd compete for the Conroy Cup in the "D" division. In the men's National Team Championships, teams in the "E" division compete for the Chaffee Cup. In the men's National Team Championships, teams in the "F" division compete for the Serues Cup. In the men's National Team Championships, teams in the "G" division compete for the Hawthorn Cup. |
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TRUTH & Rumors
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 Word has spread from across the pond, about a former England Squash coach fluffing up his resume (here). He says his coaching achievements include 2 world number #1's, a double world champion, one world team championship, and three times world team runners-up medals. - All sounds nice, except here's the rub. He apparently didn't coach any of them.
- Our source? No less than a British M.P. (Militant Parent)
- Speaking of British coaches fluffing up their resume, we've received several notes about U.S. based teaching pros who claim to have earned higher levels of National Coaching Certification, but apparently have not.
- Thus far, we've chosen not to release the names.
- Kenyon University's squash coach wrote in his CSA preview that they have more courts than players. #Awkward
- Although PSA CEO Alex Gough is concerned his team could be seen on social media being less than presentable, we don't think his players have much to worry about.
- The flamboyant Mr. Gough is the king of being silly on social media. #HayRides With Boys #MoreBeerPlease
- English squash player James Willstrop is fortunate to be able to drive home each night this week from the PSA World Championship tournament. His wife could give birth to their first at any minute. Would he really sacrifice a shot at a PSA World Title in exchange for being bedside for the birth of their first? #HappyWifeHappyLife
- PSA legend Amr Shabana is in England this week fighting for the PSA World Championship title. We learned he was recently bed ridden fighting a liver problem for over a month, which explains his withdrawl from the US Open.
- Ramy Ashour has no excuse for withdrawing from the US Open. He just didn't want to play it.
- According to this Tweet, Nick Matthew's book Sweating Blood is so popular, he would hurt his chances at winning a World Championship if he kept signing an autograph for everyone that asked him to do so. #NiceMarketing
- We are not sure what Framboise Gommendy was referring to in this Tweet. But we suspect it was a slap at the British for being sexist against a woman or xenophobic against a French woman. In either case, we prefer Fram to the other guys.
- Rob Dinerman is a good guy. #Truth
- Australia's Goulburn Post led with this headline "Four out of 23 Million Ain't Bad" to this article about a 15 year old girl finishing fourth at the country's junior national tournament.
- We've never seen her play, but that headline feels like it might be overstating things a wee bit.
- Our guess is 4 out of 16 ain't bad.
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More Squash News
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Sweating Blood: Nick Matthew on His Book
DSR: Detroit Athletic Club's Growing Squash Program Adding New Pro DSR: Quill Shots - Squash Fiction Contest DSR: T Party - Knowing Your Surroundings DSR: Esteemed Judges for Fiction Contest SquashSite: PSA Championship Underway SquashSite: David Calls Irving Best Coach in World
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