{"id":176632231,"date":"2008-05-01T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.wpengine.com\/?p=176632231"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:09:06","slug":"rule-13-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632231","title":{"rendered":"Rule 13.1.3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 countries got them. It\u2019s nickname was\u00a0TSO<\/em>. Still guessing?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Squash Official<\/em> has been a fantastic, if completely below the radar screen publication for fifteen years. It has been the brainchild of Barry Faguy, the veteran Canadian squash referee. With a simple 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/2 page, stapled, sixteen page pamphlet format, it has always been well-designed, boasting call-outs, sidebars and other design accoutrement. It will still appear three times a year, but now just electronically.<\/p>\n

The content of\u00a0TSO\u00a0<\/em>has been extremely useful. There is nothing more unintelligible to the average player or spectator than the implementation and enforcement of the rules of the game. Parsing the esoteric\u2014follow-through contact, self-inflicted injury, the 3\/4 front wall convention, foot-faults (my personal pet peeve)\u2014has been the key job of\u00a0TSO<\/em>. One fine feature has been the middle-page spread in which Rod Symington and Graham Waters are given the same situations and asked to adjudicate. Although their answers are often similar, their differences are telling and it is wonderful to see when they disagree.<\/p>\n

The best thing about\u00a0TSO<\/em>, though, was its back-page humor section \u201cOfficially Speaking\u201d which repeated comments and conversation between players and referees. Not surprisingly, our own maestro of the mouth, the gadfly with the gift of the complaining gab, the Comox comet Jonathon Power appeared more than any other player. Here is my favorite beaut from the October 2003: \u201cDuring the Jonathon Power\/Viktor Berg match [at the 2003 Canadian nationals], Berg is arguing with the referee Zal Davar. As the discussion goes on, Power says to Berg: \u201cI\u2019m not the one arguing the call, but if you want some help, I\u2019m better at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One Response to \u201cRule 13.1.3\u201d<\/h3>\n
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  1. Guy Cipriano<\/a><\/cite>\u00a0Says:
    \n    June 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am<\/a><\/small>Wow- I thought I\u2019d heard of them all, but that\u2019s a new one to me! Maybe Sconzo, McGoo or Dinny know about it- I\u201dve never heard of it or seen it in 30 plus years in the game! Funny line by Power, though!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 … Continue reading Rule 13.1.3<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}