Mall Ball? You Gotta Be Kidding Me!
Anyone up for an afternoon of pickleball – at the mall? That’s right, CNN Business ran an online article on May 13th, in which it...
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Tim Pitts
- May 11
Chill Pickleball and a Youth Movement
If you are a regular reader of this column, you might assume Landings Club pickleball is all about tournament play. Afterall, most of the...
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Tim Pitts
- Apr 26
National Pickleball Month
Who knew that April was National Pickleball month? I didn’t, at least until Lisa Tocci mentioned it the other day. Had I known, I’d have...
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Tim Pitts
- Apr 14
Pickleball, Battle of the Branches & More
It is a fact. Every day twenty-two United States armed forces veterans take their own lives. Death by suicide is a leading cause of...
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Tim Pitts
- Apr 11
Landings Picklers Shine, Aging Tennis Stars Not So Much
On Saturday ESPN aired a first of its kind Pickleball Slam, pitting four aging tennis stars in a winner-take-all battle to highlight the...
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Tim Pitts
- Mar 23
Pickleball Doubles Club Championships
The annual Landings Club Pickleball Doubles Championships were played last Sunday. Despite the cool temperatures and, at times,...
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Tim Pitts
- Mar 15
World Pickleball Tournament Redux
Part two of the World Pickleball Tournament is proving difficult to write without the probability of upsetting someone. You know how it...
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Tim Pitts
- Mar 9
World Pickleball Tournament
The World Pickleball Tournament was held at The Landings Club from Friday March 3rd through Sunday the 5th, and the large crowd of...
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Tim Pitts
- Mar 7
Pickleball Mixed Doubles Championships
The Pickleball Mixed Doubles Championships were played last Saturday (Feb 25th) and spectators, ignoring a plague of sand gnats and the...
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Tim Pitts
- Mar 1
Big Year for Landings Pickleball
Pickleball is America’s fastest growing sport. Clubs, communities and municipalities across the country are struggling to keep up with...
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Tim Pitts
- Feb 9
Dynamic Duo
Let’s follow up on the Nude Pickleball article and talk about swapping. Better yet, let’s talk about how swapping partners can lead to...
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Tim Pitts
- Jan 29
What’s New in Pickleball
First, on a personal note, as many of my pickleball friends know, for the past year I have been sidelined by seemingly intractable back...
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Tim Pitts
- Jan 11
It’s For Real - Nude Pickleball
It seems the newest rage in adult communities is nude pickleball. Yes, you read that right. Adults have taken to playing in the buff in...
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Tim Pitts
- Jan 3
Learning By Watching
In early December I watched a mixed doubles pickleball match on the Tennis Channel. The match, part of a tournament in Orlando, featured...
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Tim Pitts
- Dec 31, 2022
Savannah Pickleball Championships
On December 10 and 11, the City of Savannah hosted the Savannah Pickleball Championships at Bacon Park. Clearly, I’m a bit late getting...
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Tim Pitts
- Nov 17, 2022
Special Pops -v- Mother Nature
It seems Mother Nature has a problem with the annual Landings Club Special Pops tournament. Exactly what the problem is remains a...
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Tim Pitts
- Nov 3, 2022
Men’s Pickleball Singles Championship
It seems those things we learned in junior high health class and the backseats of our parents’ Buick LeSabres are true: men are different...
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Tim Pitts
- Oct 26, 2022
Women’s Pickleball Singles Championship
One might be forgiven for assuming pickleball is a game of doubles; doubles after all is what one generally sees on the courts. But...
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Tim Pitts
- Sep 30, 2022
Stop The Presses!
For pickleball zealots across the country this is very big news. The NBA has just put its oversized footprint on America’s fastest...
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Tim Pitts
- Sep 7, 2022
DUPR Comes to The Landings
Just what the world needs, another acronym! Say it slowly, out loud: “DUPR.” It sounds like a self-satisfied, post Bacchanalian banquet...
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