2007 News

06/29/08 Racquet for the Cure In Florida
Kim Roy sent me an email about an IRT Pro-Stop Tournament in Port Riche, Florida from July 11 to 13. Can get more information from www.racquetforthecure.com, apply online at R2 Sports, or read the flyer as PDF.

06/17/08 The Finals Have Been Decided
Finished the Semi-Finals tonight. Read the League News for full details.

06/15/08 NJAR Thank You Dinner
Too many racquetball events yesterday, a NJAR meeting in the morning, people playing at Woodbridge, a Hillsborough BBQ, and a NJAR Thank you Dinner. They were all pretty good and my family had a fun at the BBQ. At the Dinner we presented Jon Clay with a plaque shaped like New Jersey to note his accomplishments as President last Season. There's some people that would like to be President and probably most say they can do a better job. Perhaps, perhaps not, but there's more people that help make it a success. The President just keeps it all together and I think Jon did a great job in that regard.

I've been one of Jon's toughest critics in the past, especially at the start when Bill Serafin was stepping down, but I give Jon a lot of respect for what he did for Jersey. In the past couple of issues of Racquetball magazine, Jersey has been mentioned more than any other point I can remember. So good job Jon, keep up the good work.

05/24/08 New Article: Playing Not to Lose.
It's an interesting concept and it's pretty much shaped my entire life in a negative way. Playing it safe doesn't always yield safe results. Check out the article or other articles.

05/22/08 Racquet Service Page
With a new stringing machine, a DBA to collect Sales Tax, and a desire to expand my business. I finally started a racquet stringing page. There's some of my advice on racquet stringing and a little about myself and business.

04/30/08 Player Profiles Fixed
Spent the last couple of nights learning some stuff about C#, yeah I know yet another programming language, to get the Player Profiles operational again. Anyway it was fun and utilized a lot of existing stuff that I already have. It's kind of a blast from the past, but it's a relief to have this fixed. I even updated the rankings lists to take you to the right profile.

04/30/08 League Semi-Finals Set
Abe and Dave Pollak played out their match last night, so the Semi-Finals for the league are all set. Check it out in League News.

04/25/08 USAR New Jersey Player Rankings
Matthew Hills sent me a cool link for all of USAR New Jersey's Ranked Players.

04/14/08 Dropped Messages
Went through about three hundred messages in one of my email accounts. There were three messages that needed my attention. I decided not to setup Outlook and just use the web interface to get to them. Sorry about the delay, I'll check the account more often.

04/12/08 New Article on Anger
A short Article on Anger and how it affects you and/or your opponent. We all get angry sometimes and we're all a little timid admiting how good it feels, but there's some severe costs to that rush even if you are not the one being angry.

03/28/08 Cook League Heating Up
There's five matches left and they will decide the top four players going into the tournament. Check out the League News for full draw run down.

02/28/08 Stage 6 Shutting Down
Pretty sure Stage 6 is going to shutdown today and there's goes all the videos I have posted. I'll look for another solution and get the section back up soon. Sucks! DivX is such a great format.

02/25/08 Quarter and Power Rankings Also Return
Decided tonight I don't need a lot of elborate programming and routines to make things better around here. I took my XML file that my Racquetball database produces and my XSL files that help format the data and just dumped them into my pages using JavaScript. Ultimately it saves me time, since I only need to upload one file to update all the rankings. I also got rid of all the Doubles teams I had in there that only served to mess things up.

Check out the latest Power and Quarter Rankings from the current league.

02/07/08 ELO Rankings Return
Well everything is not as it once was. A lot of things are still broken, but I was able to pull out the ELO Rankings from my database and post them. I know a lot of league players are itching to see where they are ranked.

01/28/08 League Schedule Started
Well no turning back now. Check out the League News for FAQs and Schedules. It finally give me some motivation to fix up the rankings and other broken stuff on the site. Good luck in the League!

01/16/08 Record Setting Numbers at Hillsborough
There were a lot of people at Hillsborough on Saturday, so much so the desk actually ran an hour behind and that's with spreading out the divisions an hour or so apart. I went there about 10 AM and didn't start to go home until 5:30. I had a lot of fun and played about nine games on Saturday and came back on Sunday for five more Open Doubles.

There was a big upset in the Open Singles Division. Wayne Storch takes first place over Jonathan Clay! Jon and Joe Camiolo were kidding around that Wayne's done. "You never beat the tournament director." Believe everyone had a great time and chalk up another gold star for Hillsborough for competition and value.