By Alan Thatcher
Contributing Editor

By Alex Beam
From Vanity Fair

*But weren’t all that interested in asking.

A few years ago, the Boston Red Sox invited Trinity College squash coach Paul Assiante to throw out the first ball at Fenway Park. Assiante was and is the winningest coach in the NCAA’s Division I. After he bounced the baseball in front of the catcher, John Kerry–style, Assiante strode off the field and heard a fan scream: “What the f--- is squash?”

By Syed Naveed Abbas
From GeoSuper

Peter F Drucker laudably cries out "Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people through flattery. Leadership is lifting an institution's/person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

By Alex Beam
From Vanity Fair





 
 
 


 
 
 
 
Let’s get the formalities out of the way first, shall we?
  
We’ll start with the obvious question: Who am I and why am I writing a blog about squash?

 
By Alan Thatcher
Contributing Editor

This meeting of Hoarders’ Anonymous is called to order.

OK. I’ll go first. My name is Alan and I am a hoarder. There, I admit it. I stand before you all today and own up to this condition. And I need help. 

Like all first-timers when they confront such a condition, I don’t believe I’m a chronic case. However, those closest to me might beg to differ.  I have received considerable help and counselling from my wife, who loves to drag me in front of the TV to watch those cheesey life make-over programmes.

You know the ones, where they put the entire contents of your home in the back yard and tell you how much trash it all is and only essential items are allowed back inside.  They want you to realise how much useless baggage we hang on to and how much it clogs up our lives.

By Tim Dunbar
Photo by Dean Kozanic
Press.co.nz

Top New Zealand squash talent is being developed by a former Australian star.  It looks like being good news for New Zealand squash players former Australian world No.3 Anthony Ricketts had to give the game away after having five operations on his right knee.

By Alan Thatcher
Contributing Editor

A wise soul once said that chasing a squash ball around the court was very much like chasing women: as you get older you learn which ones to let go.

I stopped chasing women years ago, but somehow the urge to keep chasing that pesky little ball around the court still fires me up almost every day.

From Yorkshire Evening Post
Court Side with James Willstrop

There was an exciting development for professional squash players this week as we are in a new venue in a new city.

Since Squash360.com launched at the end of January squash fans from over 90 countries have visited the site.  So what are people checking out?  Here is a quick list (in no particular order) of the most visited articles and links ...

Sent in by 'A Concerned Brit'
Name withheld upon request

I find it absolutely despicable that current board members are even allowed to stand for the position of CEO. 

Opinion / Editorial
By Shawn Patton

I believe the people that got you into a "mess" aren't necessarily the people best capable to lead you out.