Hello, everyone! This is Picklewho, the #1 pickleball website. Yesterday was Wednesday, just like the title of the Netflix series that got me wondering if we really made emos cool again. The answer is a big YES. God bless Jenna Ortega.

Here’s the news!

• U.K. company merges pickleball and cricket

• Pickleball license plates are now legal someplace

• Wichita approves their big budgeted pickleball complex.

Pickleball + cricket = ???

Whether it's J.K. Rowling throwing a tantrum on Twitter or people calling soccer "football" (I stay behind that one), there's always something strange happening in the U.K. The last one is Sixes, a company that combines cricket with pickleball and now has a new venue in Dallas

I know it sounds strange but in reality it’s fairly simple: you step inside a court with a net and hit a classic wiffle ball… With a cricket paddle. Yes, it’s pickleball with extra steps and no opponents. So, what do you call it? Picklecricket? Cricktickle? Aserejé, ja deje dejebe tudejebe desebiunouva majabi an de bugui an de buididipí?

Never knew what that meant so it might as well be it.

Get your own pickleball license plate!

A few days ago, we reported that pickleball had been recognized as Washington's official sport. News got even better as it turns out it's now legal to get a pickleball-themed license plate… if you live in Mount St. Helens.

The Washington Senate approved this decision yesterday with a 45-4 vote. Though we can’t confirm who the four politicians that voted against it are, we can infer they play tennis.

Wichita to build multi-million pickleball complex

Yesterday we posted that Wichita's City Council was about to drop an extra $3.15 million to build a massive pickleball complex, yet the decision was surrounded by controversy. After all, who needs that much money to build courts?

(I do)

Well, here’s an update. The City Council approved the extra budget, and this multi-million pickleball paradise will be up and running by 2024. If you live in Wichita and don’t like this decision, hear me out before you grab your torches. Back when the venue was supposed to have 12 courts, it was expected to make $205,000 a year…

Now the project is set to have 24 courts. Double the courts, double the cash flow. That last sentence teaches you more than a Stanford degree.

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