Author: Dax Nair
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Can Serve-and-Volley Tennis Make a Comeback?
Last month I wrote a blog post titled Serve-and-volley: Shifting from tennis to squash? One of the comments that I received was from Patrice Boies, a former colleague. Patrice played tennis for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1989-1993, winning the MVP award three times. Patrice continues to remain actively involved in tennis, and…
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Serve and Volley of the Squash Kind!
So when was the last time you watched a professional tennis match where the players served and volleyed? No, I am not talking about doubles tennis. It is true that serve and volley as a technique has all but disappeared along with the sliced return of serve. A recent article, written by Kevin Darling for…
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Social Influence: You Should Stand Up and Be Counted
One way or the other most of us have come across rating agencies. The hoopla around Standard & Poor’s downgrading of US credit rating last August is still fresh in our minds. We are also familiar with our own anxieties dealing with credit agencies and banks when we apply for a mortgage or a line…
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Nine spectacular squash venues around the world!
Over the past few months, there have been numerous write-ups and debates about squash not being included in the Summer Olympics, scheduled to be hosted in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Considering that all the other major racquet sports such as tennis, table tennis, and badminton are already included, this would appear discriminatory to most…
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Six Tips For New Twitter Users
I have been on Twitter since the March of 2012. I do not actively try to grow my following or try to game it. When I originally wrote this post, I had approximately 200 followers; and I followed roughly about the same number of people. So, in the Twitter scheme of things, I was no…
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Squash vs Tennis – The interesting debate continues
Earlier this year, I wrote a piece titled “Overheard at Club Meadowvale,” which captured the essence of some passionate discussions among members regarding the superiority of squash vs tennis. As a follow-up, I have added a few more one-liners to the original list. Give it a read. Squash is played with tins, boxes, and lines.…
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Online dating through an airline using social media!
If you are single and have been exploring the web or Social Media to find your soulmate, you may want to fly KLM! Early this year KLM introduced a ”Meet & Seat” program that allows passengers to view the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles of fellow passengers and pick one of them as their seatmate. As…
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Dr. Deji gets it right!
This is an impromptu blog post. Over the past two weeks, there have been many speculations on who will win Wimbledon. While tennis pundits debated between Djokovic and Nadal, Deji, a squash player friend, predicted that Murray would start off well, choke, and lose in four to Federer in the finals. I hate to admit…
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I was wrong to bet against Roger Federer!
In a blog that I wrote the day before the start of Wimbledon, I suggested that Federer appeared to have lost his mojo while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal were clearly emerging as the two dominant players. After all, they had split nine of the last ten grand slam titles between them. After Nadal made…
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Beer, the original social network?
Last updated on August 11th, 2021 Is beer really the original social network? Sure, the claim was originally made by Anheuser-Busch InBev, but it sort of makes sense. Like Social Media networks, beer is a good medium to connect, shoot the breeze, and share inane aspects of your personal and professional life. And, like Social Media, beer…