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...entire Harvard athletics community is shaken by this sudden and tragic loss," Athletic Director Bob Scalise said in a statement. "Paul was universally adored and respected by his student-athletes and coaching peers. He lived and breathed Harvard track and field and his passion for the sport and for teaching was evident. Paul touched the lives of hundreds of athletes. His contributions to the sport and Harvard will not soon be forgotten...
...Whether they were fellow coaches, athletes, recruits or parents, he was able to connect with people in a way that was truly inspiring. We were just at NCAA Nationals last week, and it seemed that every coach stopped to talk to him. Paul had a profound effect on the sport of track and field, and it's hard to find the words right now to express how deeply saddened the entire track and field community is at this moment...
...Recent efforts to boost squash's public profile have had mixed results. The sport failed to make it onto the Olympic program for the 2012 games in London. (Its advocates hope to make it in 2016.) And though clever technology has made the sport more TV-friendly, with glass courts and white balls making it much easier to follow the action, broadcasts remain hard to find. Still, at its grass roots, the picture is looking brighter. Some 180 years since pupils at England's posh Harrow school invented the game, children are again getting involved. A scheme introduced two years...
...loss of Lambs is a body blow to a sport fighting hard to regain full fitness. Britain has provided six of the world's current top 16 male players - compared with only one of the world's top 50 tennis players - but the game's popularity has stumbled in recent years...
...alternative pursuits from the late '80s onward - along with a lack of TV coverage that prevented the game's profile from taking off - meant many players nationwide drifted away: 3% of Britons aged 16 or over polled in 1987 had played squash in the previous month, according to Sport England, a government body; by 2002, that figure had slipped to 1%. Over that time, participation in fitness and yoga classes climbed from...