Men’s Championship Division - Chris Poppell, Chris Eastwood, AJ Goldman (Photo: Alex Fox) The sun is about to set on the old Franklin Creek and it’s none too soon. The crumbling original pickleball courts will be replaced by new courts, built with contemporary technology, insuring a longer life expectancy and significantly smoother play. While the “why” it’s taken so long defies even the most active imagination, all picklers have reason to rejoice. The long overdue changes a

Stella I would like to forget last spring. My friend Charlie, a Golden Retriever I’d adopted when he was seven weeks old, died of cancer on March 11th . He was two months shy of thirteen. The loss of Charlie and the simultaneous realization that I could no longer play the sports that had for years fed my competitive urges, sent me spiraling into an abyss. Then, Dawn and Phil Sabin, a couple I’d never met, rode to the rescue. My wife Ellen heard through the pickleball grapev

Phil and Terri Espy Phil and Terri Espy met on a blind date in Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1989 when Phil’s realtor set them up....

“It’s different this time.” Famous last words. When someone tells us “it’s different this time”, more often than not it’s time to head...

Labor Day is commonly, and incorrectly, referred to as the end of summer. In astronomical terms, summer ends at the equinox, Monday,...

Drawn by their shared love of golf and a desire for warmer winters, Steve and Gretchen Nazaruk moved from Connecticut to The Landings in...

Is it possible we have living among us families who are in the Federal Witness Protection Program? Frankly, I never seriously considered...

Mary Lee Beach and Stephen Ford Stephen Ford and Mary Lee Beach met in 1982. Clearly, something clicked, as they tied the knot two years...

I don’t remember exactly when I formed a pickleball group, but it might have been the fall of 2017. I secured a contract for two courts...

The movie some of you have been breathlessly awaiting is one step closer to its long-anticipated release. Ben Stiller’s latest...

The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) recently reported that 48.3 million adult Americans, nearly 19% of the total adult...

Tracy Sellard was never a prison inmate. It’s difficult to imagine her jay walking, much less committing a crime that would earn her a...

Church attendance in the United States has been declining for decades. On any given weekend, roughly three in ten adults attend religious...

More than 55,000 fans and 3,450 players from all fifty states and forty countries recently gathered at the National Pickleball Center in...

Is having a tennis background a prerequisite to playing high level pickleball? The evidence seems to be mixed, but it does suggest that...

Denise and Eric Larson Eric and Denise Larson moved to Savannah from Indiana in 2015. Coincidentally, it was Tom and Sue Souls, the...

As I write this, April showers are setting the stage for May flowers. Right? Well, maybe. It has been too long since Skidaway Island...

“I want to challenge Fern and Maddie right now.” And just like that, Tracy Ambler has thrown down the gauntlet. To say Tracy and his wife...

Thank you to everyone who supported the TFAC Pickleball Round Robin. There can be no doubt that generosity is one of the great many...

Here are a few points of interest in case you missed them. First, there is a move afoot to begin a women’s pickleball organization. Kim...