Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) stars Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen played a pickleball match on a recent episode of reality TV series “The Ultimate Fighter.” Cormier and Sonnen are coaches on the show, and the pickleball match was held as a ‘Coaches Challenge’ with plenty of cash on the line. UFC CEO and President […]
Doug Ellin, the creator of one of the greatest TV shows in history, Entourage, joins the Pickleballers crew for one of the most entertaining episodes to date. He goes into his career before Entourage, how the show became a cultural phenomenon, how he became perhaps the biggest pickleball lover in America, and so much more. […]
Tennis legend Sam Querrey joined the Pickleballers Podcast this week for one of our favorite episodes yet. We cover everything from him beating Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon to becoming the No. 1 draft pick in Major League Pickleball. Pickleballers co-hosts Jared Paul and Roscoe Bellamy dive into Querrey’s wildest tour stories, what it’s really like facing […]
World No. 1 women’s pickleball player Anna Leigh Waters appeared in a live interview on ESPN’s SportsCenter on Thursday afternoon from the Major League Pickleball Mid-Season Tournament. SportsCenter was on scene as part of its “50 States in 50 Days” tour, which celebrates local sports stories and traditions across the country. The tournament in Grand […]
In addition to shifting to a new prize-money structure next year, the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball will also be implementing an automated line call system in partnership with PlayReplay, a sports technology company specializing in AI-powered line calling and performance analytics. The two big changes in 2026 for the United Pickleball Association — the […]
Ben Johns was a guest on CNN News Central with Erica Hill on Friday morning while in New York for this weekend’s Major League Pickleball event. Hill and Johns discussed a wide variety of topics during the interview, from Johns’ first experience with the game to the huge growth of the sport both at the […]
Parris Todd recently joined the Pickleballers Podcast for one of our most raw, real conversations yet. She opens up about her early days as a tennis prodigy, turning pro at 14, and traveling the world alone as a teenager chasing a dream. We talk about the pressure, the sacrifices and what eventually led her to […]
We’ve been called a lot of things as pickleball players over the years. Crazy, obsessed, LOUD, annoying … the list goes on. And honestly in a lot of cases pickleball players would probably admit to being those things from time to time. But a Florida man recently took the pickleball insults to new heights when […]
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on the ONIX Pickleball blog. A few things may spring to mind when you hear the name Roxanne Pierce: Olympic gymnast, firefighter, and now a tough pro pickleball player. She is an inspiration to others for her journey from elite gymnastics competitions to a first responder and now […]
On this week’s episode of PICKLEBALLERS, Whole Foods founder John Mackey joins hosts Jared Paul and Roscoe Bellamy to talk about building a billion-dollar brand, pioneering conscious capitalism, redefining love and life in his next chapter — and why he’s all-in on pickleball. If you are an entrepreneur or are intrigued by business stories, you’re going […]
