Last season, the PSA Tour was set ablaze by Nicol David making videos of her dancing with fellow pros. Here is the inside story. And Mark Talbott talks about Tom Cruise and dancing at Grateful Dead shows.

Imagine flying in very late for your first match at the World Open and your luggage doesn’t make it with you. That is what Sarah Fitz-Gerald, the Australian great, faced in her final World Open, in Qatar in 2002. What happened next is the stuff of legend.

A salty seventy-two year-old southpaw from borderlands of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bryan Patterson has been a top junior, amateur and professional player and a camp director and coach. For the past quarter century, he’s been mentoring kids in the U.S., first in Brooklyn and then Philadelphia and for the past eleven years at CitySquash in the Bronx.

What do we love to do when we aren’t playing squash? OTG talks with James Willstrop about theatre and Chris Gordon about ice hockey. Both PSA pros have had good runs recently: Willstrop just captured the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games and Gordon won the British Virgin Islands Open in February. But off-court: emotions, story-telling, stitches in the face, Mr. June and the Scottish play—it’s all here.

One of the most successful coaches ever, David Pearson has worked with some of the top players in the world, including a few competing this month in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. A childhood in Zambia, school in Zimbabwe and a job in the complaints department of a shoe company—all that came before he came to squash as an adult.

One of the greatest players in squash history, Geoff Hunt won eight British Opens and the first four men’s World Championships. A little-known part of his career was the Australian's sojourns in North America, first as a teenager and later as a pro. Hunt has stories about Original Six ice hockey, Victor Niederhoffer, the Mennen Cup, Sharif Khan, the Philadelphia Boast and the shortest men’s World Championship final in history.

Steve Line is The Man in Black. The first and only full-time professional squash photographer, the Englishman has been sitting behind the front wall, camera in hand, for almost thirty-six years. He now takes 48,000 photos at each event. But it wasn’t always that way: Line tells of turning from geology to photography, his wedding photo mishaps and how he developed film in a coal bunker.

Mike Lewis is the Walter Mitty of squash—except his day dreams became a reality. In his mid-twenties, he quit his job to become a touring squash pro. In the next eighteen months, he played in forty-seven countries, reaching world No.112. Here are tales from his life on the road, including the art of sleeping at squash clubs and discovering squash fans in places like Andorra, Morocco, New Caledonia and Paraguay.

Outside The Glass got a special, behind-the-scenes look at Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar. Geoff Hunt, Stewart Boswell and Jonathon Kemp took us on a tour of the world’s only squash boarding school. We learned about kabaddi, saw fencing and table tennis practice and spent time at the squash facility from where future world champions will probably emerge.

What is it like to be a Dreamer, to be brought to the U.S. as a young child and grow up without documents? Reyna Pacheco is a Mexican-American who graduated from Columbia last year and is now a professional squash player. She is ranked world No.72. Pacheco tells her inspiring story to OTG. “Dream big, work bigger—work as big as you dream."