And now for something really important 🙂
The new holders of the coveted Canadian squash doubles over-60 championships are Brian Murray and Stephen McIntyre of Toronto defeating John Brazilian and Malcolm Davidson of Boston in the final, held at the Atwater Club in Montreal.
In other events, Mike Pirnak and Willy Hosey won the men’s open championship and Stephanie Edmison and Stephanie Hewett won the women’s open.
Figure 1. Left to right: Michael Martin, Brian Murray, Stephen McIntyre, finalists John Brazilian and Malcolm Davidson, Dennis Bishop. Martin and Bishop were tournament conveners and gracious hosts.
The US squash doubles championships are in Chicago from March 25-27 and we’ll be going. I played in the US over 60s last year and lost in the semis with Victor Harding to the eventual winners. I played with Brian in the Canadians last year and lost in the final (but defeated the US champions in the semi.) While our children were growing up, I played league squash in Toronto but didn’t go in many tournaments, particularly if there was travel involved. I hadn’t been to a tournament in Montreal since 1986 or so and, until last year, had never traveled to a US championship.
Hosts of squash doubles tournaments usually make a great effort to be hospitable and our hosts in Montreal, especially Mike Martin and Dennis Bishop, upheld this tradition.
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Congratulations and all the best in the Windy City!
Congratulations to you and Brian! You’re an inspiration in more ways than one!
I’m sorry this is wildly off topic but I found it too funny to ignore.
The Google-ad I’m getting just below your post is the following:
Congrats on winning the cup, I’m amazed you find enough time to stay so fit!
p.s. I clicked the link in the hope that CA will get paid a little too 🙂
Brilliant news! Well done, and many congratulations. And nice that the hosts look so pleased too!
Many Congratulations from the UK!
You deserve a new cartoon from Josh. (Hint, Hint …)
Congratulations. Now you just need to photoshop the photo to show a broken hockey stick in back of you.
Congratulations Steve! A little too far to bring some well deserved Belgian beers to refill all the lost calories…
It’s been 1974 since I played squash but when did they change to racketball “rackets” to play squash instead of the
amazing long rackets with small ‘heads’ to play?
I had exactly the same reaction when I saw the photo … having not played squash since the 80’s. I never quite understood the rationale for the very small heads of the wooden squash racquets, because for a novice player, I would miss hit the ball quite often. But I had assumed it was to make them very light weight so as to improve the player’s racquet quickness (at the expense of sweet-spot size). But now with composites, I imagine the trade-off equation has changed.
what sort of shoes are you wearing for this strange game called squash ?
Wow. I had expected to see your squash attire plastered with the logos of all of the big oil companies that some in the blogosphere allege are behind you, a la NASCAR or men’s tennis. I guess that they are mistaken… Oh well, best wishes for Chicago. btw, it is a great restaurant city so bon appetit as well.
Further OT but a Canadian connection. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed watching a rapidly rising young Canadian tennis star win the SAP open in San Jose, CA last month. Chap by the name of Milos Raonic, and no, no Exxon Mobil logos on his tennis duds, either.
You look like you have pencils for legs in the above photo. May I suggest you visit one of the many fine ethnic “all you can eat” buffets in Chicago to gain some weight? lol. Congratulations and I hope you play your best ever in Chicago.
Congratulations!
Very impressive !
All of you are too exhausted to smile, but you made up for it with the 🙂 in the title.
Congratulations and all the best in the windy city.
Congratulations! I can think of no one more deserving of recognition for rigorously addressing global challenges.
Congratulations! May you win many more.
Wow! Congratulations. By the way, those are some really kicking shoes.
Congrats. Don’t know how you do it. My shoulder and elbow were wrecked before I was 30.
I am horrified by the carbon footprint from this outrage. Clearly McIntyre is an agent of the squash racket industry. They will stop at nothing.
Come on guys, look at him! Can’t you see how sleek, evil and corrupted he looks, it’s just so obvious 🙂
Congratulations. Truly impressed.
Well done and congratulations.
Congratulations on winning the Squash cup, but you look too young to be over 60. Are you sure this isn’t a case of data manipulation?
Do I detect increasing linear trend in height of 1.04 +/- 0.03 cm from left to right? Or maybe a chladni pattern?
Congratulations on another victory, Steve.
Well done, and I hope you find some sun!
If you run down that small green ball with anything like the tenacity with which you pursue the truth, this post doesn’t come as too much of a suprise…
But Congratulations!!
I used to play a lot of squash at college but never doubles.
Does squash doubles mean there are four of you on the court at any time ?
That must be a “contact” sport.
Well done !!
Steve,
You are a star in so many ways!!!
Who’s this Brian Murray? – I haven’t seen him in the peer-reviewed literature (until now;).
Hearty congratulations – a truly noteworthy achievement.
I’m glad to see that in spite of all the toil and trouble in the climate world you are able to keep your priorities straight. Congratulations and well done!
Congratulations Steve!
(The trend lines are essentially horizontal behind the happy throng).
Congratulations! What an awesome sport!
Strange. Steve, where in Canadia did you find 5 other people who walk more than ten feet tall?
Keep up the inspiration on all facets. Geoff.
Looks like it was a rough match — apparently someone knocked the hair off your head down to your chin!
[I get to say that because I’m in the same boat! :)]
Congratulations, Steve … and here’s wishing you many more victories in the years ahead 🙂
Dude! That is so awesome! I am majorly impressed. Mad skilz.
My very best to you,
w.
Since Steve McI looks so much like Hagen von Ortloff, he must be a train-lover, too.
Looks like a knobbly knee contest to be honest……… and those shorts, well more like ‘longs’ if you ask me.
Congrats by the way.
PS How come the losers are the only ones sweating?
Very good, congratulations.
I played squash on one occasion in my life. I didn’t win a single point and never played again :p. My excuse is my arms aren’t long enough.
Anyway, congratulations. I wonder what it feels like to be “best in country” at anything?
Congratulations, as a regular reader of you blog, a fellow squash player, and retired scientist, I am in awe of you and I hope you continue to keep the AGW debate honest.
Congratulations from another who gave it up in his 30’s as too strenuous.
Congratulations! Continue your achievements in squash, and I beg you, stop your warming skeptic rantings !
How’s the Chicago tournament coming along?
so far so good,
http://www.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/tournaments/draw.asp?event_id=2022&event_id2=130
Please tell me I’m not the only person who clicked on that link and thought, “Steve is playing with Bill Murray!?”
Good luck in the finals this AM!
Narrow loss, but looks like it was an incredibly tight match:
Winner: Boynton,J / Griffin,T
14-15,15-14,11-15,15-12,17-14
Sun, 3/27 11:00am
Yup. A disappointing loss. Extra points in the fifth. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Would have been great to win a US championship. The match was about an hour and half long, which is a lot of squash for guys our age. We defeated last year’s champions in the semis, also a five game match, but not nearly as long.
Had you padded the endpoints, run it through a Gaussian filter and rejected the results you didn’t like you would have won!!!
Congratulations Steve on a good effort
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