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Dr. Ken Jackson is an English Professor at Wayne State University specializing in Shakespeare, religion, continental philosophy and literary theory and this week he's back on The Bragman Breakdown for the third time. Dr. Jackson shares his thoughts on parenting and early childhood development in 2024, and what the future holds for Gen Z.

Huge thanks to Dr. Jackson for making time for us and we hope to have him on many more times in the future. Enjoy!

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Welcome to episode 2 of NSL Talk! We have a stacked show for the people today, as Jackson Bragman and Sean Choi are back to chronicle an eventful draft weekend in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jackson and Sean kickoff the show by recapping their truip to Nashville and analyzing the brand new NSL rosters by power ranking all 6 teams (13:23). 

Next, they chat with New York City Knights 4th round pick and college squash legend Sam Scherl on how his minimalistic warmup gives him a leg up in the NSL format, beating Moustafa Asal in juniors, and his excitement to be back playing competitive squash (53:52).

Finally, the gents interview the first pick in the history of the NSL Draft, the Atlanta Tornado's Youssef Ibrahim about what it means to be the first draft selection in NSL history, his fandom for American sports, and how his team stacks up to the competition across the league (1:11:41). Enjoy! 

To keep up with the NSL, for information on how to attend this weekend's draft (and/or any other future events), head to the NSL website: https://nslsport.com/

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The University of Pennsylvania Quakers are your 2024 CSA Men's National Champions! After an amazing season full of talking about teams across college squash, this episode is all about our guy Gilly and his boys hoisting the Potter Cup for the first time in school history, and what better way to do it than live, in person, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in the heart of Philadelphia, PA, the site of Penn's National Title win less than a week prior. 

Gilly tells Jackson how it feels to finally win a National Championship for the school he played for almost 2 decades ago and what it means for the Penn Squash program before the gents welcome on Penn team captain Roger Alber Baddour to recount the team's trials and tribulations throughout the year and how they were able to avenge their 2 regular season losses, to Princeton and Trinity, in the National semifinals and finals. 

It was so cool to record live from the Specter Center during last week's CSA Individual Championships. Huge congrats to our brand new CSA Women's Individual National Champion, Harvard's Saran Nghiem and the men's champion, Trinity's Mohamed Sharaf. 

Huge thanks to Roger for joining us and congrats for helping lead his team to its first ever National Championship. Enjoy! 

The CSA National Team Championships are in the books and the women of Trinity College, and Gilly's men of the University of Pennsylvania each hoisted their respective trophies this Sunday at the home of this years competition, the Arlen Specter Center. Gilly and Jackson will breakdown the exciting National Championship weekend next week live in person when the gents are back at Specter for the Individual National Championship competition, but, in the meantime, congrats to Gilly and his boys, as well as Wendy Bartlett and the Trinity women on amazing seasons.

This week's show features 2 amazing interviews conducted last week that we haven't been able to upload until now, but still think are enthralling and wanted to share with all of you.

First, the guys were joined by CSA All-American and University of Rochester #1, from India, Yash Fadte. Yash joined us days after his team won the Hoehn Cup, the second division in men’s college squash, to finish 13th in the country. Yash was fantastic and extremely candid about the roller-coaster of a season he's had with U of R this season, which ultimately ended on a high note and Hoehn Cup victory.

Next was Columbia head men's and women's coach Chris Sachvie. Gilly and Chris reminisced about their first ever match, Gilly a senior for Penn at the time, playing Chris, a freshman at Cornell, and the, perhaps overly lively home crowd in attendance in Philly. Chris also spoke about his men’s and women’s teams, their seasons thus far, and preparing for the Nationals competition last weekend.

Fun episode this week. Huge thanks to Yash and Chris and, once again, huge congrats to Trinity and Penn, our brand new CSA National Champions. Enjoy!

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Franklin & Marshall just wrapped up an intense weekend at the CSA Divisional Team Championships, which saw 5 out of the 6 matches for the Diplomats men’s and women’s teams end in 5-4 results. Meanwhile F&M head coach Gavin Jones has just concluded his 13th season in Lancaster, PA, making him one of the longer tenured head coaches in the CSA.

Jones joins The College Squash Show this week to provide a recap of last weekend’s Divisional Championships, discuss the F&M women’s team being promoted to Division 1 status next season, his thoughts on player conduct in CSA over the years, what qualities he looks for in potential team recruits, and the legendary story of his 2013 men’s team beating Saint Lawrence in the first round of the National Championships.
 
Coach Gavin is a class act. Huge thanks to him for joining us and we can’t wait to have him back on the show.

Enjoy episode 7 of The College Squash Show with Gavin Jones!

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Welcome to Episode 1 of NSL Talk! With the NSL Draft in Nashville, Tennessee just one week away, Jackson Bragman and Sean Choi are here to preview the event with exclusive player and owner interviews, as well as a player mock draft.

First, Jackson is joined by Nashville Crushers owner and NSL co-founder Jonathan Dyke to talk about his squash fandom, how he got involved with NSL, and his draft strategy heading into next weekend (7:10).

Next, Jackson and Sean chat about heading to Nashville next weekend to provide commentary for the USA Vs. The World NSL exhibition match on Friday night, as well as the draft on Saturday, before jumping into a mock draft where they each select one player projected to be selected in the draft range of each of the 4 rounds for their teams (22:28).

Finally, Jackson sits down with two of the most exciting, fastest rising players in squash today, Colombia’s Matias Knudsen and India’s Veer Chotrani. After discussing Matias’ viral trick shots of the last several months, as well as Veer's preparation for the upcoming CSA Nationals competition, the gents talk about their excitement for the first ever NSL season, how their playing styles will fare into the NSL format, who they would draft with first overall pick (1:08:55). Enjoy!

To keep up with the NSL, for information on how to attend this weekend's draft (and/or any other future events), head to the NSL website: https://nslsport.com/

Next weekend's exhibitions on Friday and Saturday, and the draft itself will be streaming live on the NSL YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it: https://www.youtube.com/@NationalSquashLeague

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