Proud of the Captains of the Coastal Communities Pickleball League

There are so many of you, I gave you a group shout out in my first column this year. Pickleball Points: Proud of our Coastal Point Pickleball Worthies of 2018 Last year, we nominated the top five persons as the 2017 Coastal Point Worthies who we felt had done the most to advance Pickleball in …

Peace Through Pickleball

Last year I submitted the following article and it appeared I was being opportunistic and it was not published. I had actually been working on it for some time so it was just a coincidence that I submitted it the week before all the news about North Korea. Now all of the noise has dimmed, …

Happy Pickleball New Year

Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 1:06pm Depending on when you read Coastal Point this week, the year 2019 is about to occur or has already stepped onto center stage. It’s time to plan your new pickleball year with gusto, but you won’t be the only ones. America loves to physically work out in January, at …

Santa’s Elves Play Pickleball

It is that magic time of the year, 75 and counting for me.  I always find my body weight increasing this time of year, and remind myself that I will seriously turn it up a notch in the gym after New Years...and unfortunately I do that just before I have another piece of cake or …

2018 Demo Pickleball Paddles for Sale

I have some paddles I used in 2018 as demos. I am making room for my 2019 paddles. They are all top quality, in good shape, and have new grip overwraps. First come - first serve. Email me at pickleball@gmx.com if you are interested.

A Pickle of a Score

Recently many people have been introduced to pickleball, and more will soon follow. You invariably will hear that pickleball scoring is very difficult, and a gentleman at a pickleball clinic recently suggested to me that pickleball should have made scoring more simple like tennis. I looked at him and said, "Excuse me, Deuce, Forty Love, …

Ocean City

This is the pickleball crowd at Ocean City waiting to take the court in 7 minutes ...and counting down.