America’s premier newspapers and magazines publish a new article on pickleball seemingly every 20 minutes. Common themes include, but are certainly not limited to: the bitter feud between pickleball players and the tennis players whose courts they’ve infiltrated; the bitter feud between pickleball players and local residents who can’t stand the distinctive “popping” sound of ball coming off paddle invading their airspace; and the community-building magic of the sport itself (that genre often features a onetime skeptic’s eventual conversion).
