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Jorja Johnson of the Hard Eights holds her Franklin paddle during the Major League Pickleball finals match against BLQK at Pickle & Chill on October 16, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio.Emilee Chinn | Getty ImagesMajor League Pickleball is getting new leadership as it looks to capitalize on the rise of America's fastest-growing sport at the professional level.The team-based pro pickleball league announced Wednesday it has named finance and media executive Julio DePietro as its chief executive officer and former NFL executive…

Swimply is expanding its marketplace to offer pickleball court rentals.Source: SwimplySwimply, the startup that lets people rent private pools, is set to expand to pickleball courts — and the company says it expects revenue from its new offering to outpace pool rentals in just two and half years.On Tuesday, the company announced it is adding pickleball- and tennis-court rentals to its growing marketplace."There's a massive constraint right now considering how fast the sport is growing," Bunim Laskin, Swimply founder and…

Lucky’s Market hasn’t sold a jar of pickles in Wheat Ridge for more than three years. But the 35,000-square-foot space at West 38th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard that was home to the Boulder-based natural foods-focused grocery chain that carried Grillo’s pickle chips and Bubbies Kosher dills until 2020 will soon house a different kind of pickle — Colorado’s largest indoor pickleball complex. Nascent operator 3rd Shot Pickleball plans to lay out 13 courts inside the empty box store, complete with bar and lounge for…

Ben Johns leaps across the kitchen for a backhand shot during the PPA Carvana Arizona Grand Slam Pro Men's Doubles Championship match at Legacy Sports USA on February 19, 2023 in Mesa, Arizona.Bruce Yeung | Getty ImagesAmazon Prime members can now add pickleball coverage to their list of membership benefits.Amazon's Prime Video streaming platform announced Tuesday it's signed a multiyear deal with the Professional Pickleball Association for global streaming rights to four live PPA Tour events per year, including the…

Jamie Foxx’s daughter is “sad” that the media has “run wild” with stories suggesting that her 55-year-old movie star father suffered a debilitating medical crisis that is still keeping him in the hospital. So, Corinne Foxx took to Instagram Story Friday to claim that he’s been “out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating” and is even doing so well in his recovery that he “was playing pickle ball yesterday!” Corinne Foxx’s post was a clapback to a recent report that said the Foxx family was “preparing for the worst.”…

Jamie Foxx’s daughter is shutting down rampant rumors about the “Ray” Oscar winner’s recent hospitalization, providing the latest definitive update on his mysterious “medical complication” last month.“Update from the family,” Corinne Foxx wrote Friday on Instagram Stories. “Sad to see how the media runs wild. My dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating.”“In fact, he was playing pickleball yesterday!” the “Beat Shazam” co-host added. “Thanks for everyone’s prayers and support! We have an exciting work…

Centennial’s half-year ban on new outdoor pickleball courts hasn’t been in effect for even a month and already there’s pushback from folks crazy about a sport that’s been growing like mad in Colorado. Jane Robbins, who serves as the pickleball manager at the Homestead in the Willows neighborhood in Centennial, said she is “disappointed and frustrated” by the city’s decision to temporarily halt the establishment of new outdoor courts within 500 feet of homes so that it can study noise impacts associated with the game. The…

We will now discuss pickleball, because pickleball is the only thing that matters now. Pickleball, pickleball, pickleball. The Final Four, Opening Day, new NFL rules—none of it stands a chance against a good old racket-borne Tupperware fight. By media edict, I am required to mention pickleball at least 20 times per day, or there is a penalty, which is having to mention pickleball 40 times a day.Any resistance is futile. On Sunday, April 2, former pickleball hater John…

Centennial this week approved a six-month moratorium on the construction of new outdoor pickleball courts in the city so that it can assess the potential for noise complaints, and how to minimize them, as the popular sport continues to boom in Colorado. The City Council voted 8-1 on Tuesday night in favor of the temporary ban, which will end on Sept. 30 unless extended by the council. There have been multiple reports from around the country about neighborhoods driven crazy by the sound of the impact between pickleball and…

The Tennis Channel is embracing pickleball.Major League Pickleball announced Thursday the cable channel will broadcast the league's premier level tournament semifinals and finals in Mesa, Arizona, and will make all matches of the tournament available for streaming. The partnership marks a deepening of the relationship between professional pickleball and the TV network.Pickleball has soared in popularity, with more than 36 million Americans playing the sport last year. Now the Tennis Channel is poised to capitalize on that…