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Legend Heather McKay honoured in Australia

from Arel Jay (squashstories)

Legend Heather McKay receives lifetime award from Victorian squash recently at Mulgrave Club. Pictured here with long standing squash administrator Paul Vear. Heather entered to a 3 minute standing ovation and answered questions for half an hour to a rapt audience

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Always dreamt about being a TV star? Here is your chance... Universal recruits...

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Saving Private Squash: When a lady is trying to save squash in Essendon, Australia

Sue Rainey of Essendon Squash is doing what other squash centres can’t, staying open and single handedly maintaining a community.

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Michelle Martin joins ABC Gold Coast

3-time World Squash Champion Michelle Martin talks with Nicole Dyer on ABC Gold Coast ahead of Squash Australia's 2019 International Women's Day event.

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JAHANGIR THE CONQUEROR – The Ballpoint

A look at the remarkable life and squash career of Jahangir Khan

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PSABabies: Liam Rösner, born 28th December 2018 at 4:42, 3,960 Gramms and 55 cm Mum is great and so is the New Dad...

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“It never happened”... One of funniest reports I have read for a very long time... thanks Jamie Maddox (SquashStories on Facebook). It’s like video streaming, only better!!!!

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News from Chris Binnie after his ‘Mini-stroke’

So I had a big scare last week… I wanted to use this platform really to just reach out and let everyone know that I am ok and will be completely fine moving forward. Thank you everyone who reached out, came to visit and had me in their thoughts last week. I really appreciated it and I am very grateful for your support.

Last Tuesday morning, I had a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) or otherwise known as a mini-stroke. I am very young for something like this to happen and that immediately triggered the doctors concern. Over 3 days in the hospital, the doctors ran several tests and thought they had found a hole in my heart that led to the TIA. Everyone is born with a hole in their heart but most people’s close upon birth, some remain and usually are not an issue. After more tests were done, the doctors were even more unsure of the situation. Different tests continued to give conflicting results.

Although this was not the best answer, it was still relatively good news. Bad news because they don’t know what brought on the TIA but good news to know that medication will be able to prevent any future issues. Even if my heart has a small hole in it or any complication, nothing can be done currently they say and the medication is the best way forward. They are still running some tests and hopefully will have some more news for me in the coming weeks.

It is a little unsettling that they were not able to figure out exactly what happened but this plan moving forward is for the best. They have said I will be fine to continue playing squash and will get back into things after a couple weeks of rest.

I did want to specially thank Klair for being there everyday with me, i would have been lost without you. Thank you to everyone at Greenwich Hospital. And thank you to the people who came by, my family and friends, you have all been incredibly supportive and I am very grateful for you all.

On a slightly more upbeat tone, i think this hospital attire could be a wardrobe upgrade for me 😏

source Chris’ Instagram

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NewsRoom, Nz: King on a quest to rule the squash world

Commonwealth Games squash queen Joelle King is on a clear mission in 2019: “I want to be the best in the world.”

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#SupermanReturns

I'm delighted to be back home in New Zealand for the festive season and I've got company!

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Nour El Tayeb and Ali Farag speak about learning to live together, about how they met, how their friendship grew into something stronger, and about life in tour… 

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The Big Interview in The SheffieldStar: Sheffield’s three-time world squash champion, Nick Matthew, aka The Wolf, loving husband, doting dad and maker of ‘girlie’ drinks

The Wolf? Really?

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New Season, New Blog | Paul Coll

THE new squash season is almost upon us and so I thought this would be the right time to start my new monthly column which is exclusive to paulcoll.com. The idea is to share with you some of the work that goes on behind the scenes, provide a bit of insight into what it’s like …

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NewZealand Stuff: How Kiwi squash player Joelle King went from tearful torment to golden glow

Joelle King didn't do much but cry in her first meeting with her new coach, but now she's a reinvigorated player.

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An old world champion

It is late March when dad suggests we should play the world championships together. He keeps talking about the Masters, this summer held in Virginia, and after months and months of him going on about it, telling stories about previous editions in Johannesburg and Hong Kong, and me listening to those stories, stories I might have heard before, I go online and pay the entry fee. I haven’t paid an entry fee for a tournament in a long time. I entered, I email him, but get no reply. The following week I see him. When are you going to put your name in? I ask. At my age, he says, I’m never too sure if I get injured or not. So I deem it best to wait till the last possible moment to sign up. Great. Now I’ll go alone. Retired from the tour less than two years ago, and off I go again, to a tournament far away, nothing to win, all alone, one of the things I really didn’t fancy anymore.