A Funny Name, a Serious Sport. Pickleball, Anyone?

(May 14, 2014 Gainesville, VA, www.nytimes.com)

Too impatient for golf, too prudent for skateboards and skis, and too mobile or proud for shuffleboard, boomers are carving up underused volleyball, basketball and tennis courts to bring pickleball to their gyms and parks, their country clubs and retirement communities. Perhaps no organized sport since baseball, football and basketball matches pickleball’s seduction of so wide a swath of the population. Read More…