Don’t let the funny name fool you. This sport is a hit

(August 25, 2017 Kansas City, MO, www.kansascity.com)

Remember when pickleball was the new sport on the block – a curiosity popping up in community center “fifty-plus” programs with a weird name no one could fully explain? Remember how parents and grandparents played it early in the morning on courts that would later be occupied by pickup basketball groups? That was only about five or six short years ago. Now it is nigh impossible to pass a flat public surface without encountering a pickleball game in progress. Now pickleball is everywhere, and it’s no longer a niche game only for active seniors, although they are still its devoted core. Millennials are the newest group to take up the paddle, with even younger players getting in on it through their school gym classes. Read More…

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