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NETSUITE SPONSORS SQUASH TOURNEY

Evan Goldberg, NetSuiteThis is not what you would call hot technology news. But it does display the influence a company with money and someone with a passion can have. NetSuite has set the dates for the 2012 NetSuite Open Professional Squash Championships, which will be held October 20 through 23 in San Francisco. The tournament was founded last year by Evan Goldberg, NetSuite's founder and chairman, who is also an avid squash player. There is $70,000 in prize money, which should tell you something about the difference in popularity between squash and tennis, for example.

Heck, Larry Ellison, NetSuite's largest shareholder and the guy who put the money into the business, probably spends that much on sail repairs for his racing yacht every year. The tournament benefits SquashDrive (Bay Area) and Xtreme Squash (Palo Alto/Stanford), two urban youth enrichment organizations that offer academic support, life skills and squash instruction to underserved children. Along with the BayClub San Francisco, NetSuite's invited players will offer free squash instruction to the public. Early rounds of play are taking place October 17 through 19 at Stanford University and local clubs. The sponsors say there are 800,000 squash players in the United States and 12 million players worldwide. World Squash Day is October 20, when more than 10,000 players around the world will support the bid to make squash and Olympic sport in 2020.

 

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