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At age 11, Jerry Jacobs world fell apart when he lost his beloved mother, Alice, to stomach cancer in 2009. With no father around, and an uncertain future, he was faced with grief and frustration, and the choice to either let his situation take him to the dark side, or try to make his siblings...

In 1965, Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum invented the game of Pickleball as a way to keep their kids active over the summer holidays. Because of its easiness to pick up, pickleball participation grew and caught on with people of all ages. Then, in 2020, as the Coronavirus pandemic...