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Now, back to what you came here for: today’s news:

• This (optimistic) MLP founder says pickleball will be a top-five sport in five years.

• A guy suffered three strokes while playing pickleball??!!

• What the heck is pickleball “eatertainment”?

Will pickleball be a top-five sport in the next five years?

Major Pickleball League Founder Steve Kuhn claimed pickleball will be “a top-five sport in terms of viewership within the next five years”. In fact, Kuhn went as far as to state that it would challenge MLS, MLB, and even the Kardashians reruns…that’s a bold statement.

Let’s be honest: it’s too early to predict such growth. Pickleball’s most-watched event was a special hosted by Stephen Colbert with 2.46 million people watching. MLB’s World Series had 12.77 million. Still, we keep our hopes up that one day we’ll be bigger than football AND soccer.

Yes, Englishmen, I said “and”.

He suffered three strokes and a broken artery playing pickleball!

Joel Hentrich, a 35-year-old dad from Missouri, became an official member of the Chuck Norris’ club after suffering three strokes in the middle of a pickleball game, popping a neck artery, and waiting for two hours in the hospital before medics activated the stroke protocol.

He not only survived the whole thing: he was conscious the whole time, spent only two days in intensive care, and is now back playing the game. I once entered the ER after hitting my pinkie with my bedroom door, so this guy is either a vampire, John Wick or Jesus Christ himself.

I’m going for vampire.

So, there’s a thing called “pickleball eatertainment business”...

Yeap, it’s a business that combines food and Hollywood's biggest as they play our beloved sport wearing nothing but full medieval armor.

Boy I wish that were true.

The real answer is quite simple: food + entertainment aka pickleball. It’s also the best way to describe Camp Pickle, a massive pickleball 60,000 square feet complex in Denver’s Globesville Fox Park. The site will gather at least 15 pickleball courts and also include 100,000 square feet of outdoor space for concerts and food chains. So, yeah, “pickleball eatertainment” is probably the best way to describe this type of business.

“My fever dreams” comes close second though.

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