Jazz trumpeter, data cruncher, media guru, Howard Harding is the man behind the story. He has researched, written and issued over 8,600 squash press releases in the past thirty years. He’s also the founder and director of SquashInfo.com, the Bible of squash. And he’s hung out with Lou Reed.

One of the giants of North American squash, Clive Caldwell has been a top pro player, director of the pro hardball tour and owner of major squash clubs in Canada. OTG sits down with him to talk about the original oversized racquet, the infamous Bunny Suit, the creation of the WPSA logo and how squash can evolve:

"Every change is a nightmare,” he says. "Nobody wants change. If you don’t change, you die.”

It is a lodestar for your life: the very first time you stepped on a squash court. Sometimes it was a magical moment; other times an ordinary moment, just something you did. Looking back, though, it is when your life changed. Guests include Ted Price, Demer Holleran, Larry Sconzo, Jack Bickel, Rich Wade, Bart McGuire, Matt McAndrew, Kat Grant, Leo Pierce, Nick & Tom Post, Sam Howe, Jim Dawson, Jeff Stanley, Alvin Wolff and Molly Pierce.

In the fourth of our series on best wins and worst losses, OTG jumps into possibly the most excruciating and exciting arena: team matches. We hear about the greatest Team USA squad that no one knows about—the gold-medal winning American girls at the 1980 Women’s World Juniors—and other tales of redemption and recidivism. Guests include Freddy Hernandez, Kat Grant, Rich Wade, Ted Price and Adam Hamill.

In our third episode in our series that looks at best wins and worst losses, OTG dwells on something squash players vividly remember: match points. Miraculous comebacks, stunning collapses, whether in a national championship, a club tournament or a C league match, these are moments they've never forgotten. And neither will you. Guests include Andres Vargas, Bart McGuire, Preston Quick, Jim Dawson, Matthew McAndrew and Larry Sconzo.

Squash is a family game: we compete with our parents, our children, our siblings, our cousins. As we continue our series about memories of your best win, your worst loss, OTG presents a half dozen stories about the poignant joys, irritations and sorrows of playing in a squash family. Guests include Leo Pierce, Molly Pierce, Sam Howe, Nick Post, Tom Post and Demer Holleran.

Earlier this month, Amanda Sobhy, the world No.6 player, suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in the semifinals of a tournament in Colombia; she was at match point against fellow American Olivia Blatchford. Sobhy talks with Outside The Glass about the lead-up to the injury, her harrowing journey to the hospital that night and her plan for the long road back.

It is March, so it is time again for the Cheltenham Festival, the annual horse jumping meeting in England. Malcolm Willstrop, a former horse racing journalist, takes Outside The Glass into a betting shop in Pontefract to put a wager down before spinning a few tales from his early days in squash. The dean of international squash coaches, Willstrop has been mentoring players for a half century, including Gawain Briars, Lee Beachill and his son, world No.9 James Willstrop.

OTG is starting a new series of interviews about memories of your best win, your worst loss and the first time you played squash. Olivia Blatchford, a longtime Team USA member and currently world No.27, inaugurates the series with an insightful look back at victories in Mexico and Ireland, defeats in New York and the perfect roll corner. How do you incorporate the “I don’t lose, I learn” mentality? What is your theory about how to play match points? What do you do when your five-year-old says, “When do I get to play?”

Nour El Tayeb and Ali Farag are newlyweds, having gotten married last summer. They are also two of the most exciting and exceptional young players on tour. They talk with Outside the Glass about honeymooning in Vegas, cattle farming, how they coach each other between games, the brilliance of Harvard coach Mike Way, playing in front of the Great Pyramids and what El Tayeb’s grandmother always says to Farag.