![]() It’s beating out poker, the Powerball lottery, and some game called king’s cup, which (I had to look it up) involves drinking several shots of alcohol while turning over playing cards. Pickleball isn’t beating out tennis, basketball, and ice hockey in this story. It’s that pickleball is the only sport on the list. It turns out that not only is pickleball the most searched sport for rules across America – and that it’s the top-searched sport in 27 states. The data used to arrive at the story’s conclusions are Google searches using terms such as “how to play” or “rules.”Īnd there’s even a state-by-state comparison of the top-five searches in each state. It’s a website called Hearts.land which is devoted to explaining how the card game of hearts is played and providing an online site for people to play the game. The source of this story isn’t ESPN, The Athletic, or some other sports site. But then digging into the story, it turns out things get nutty really fast. I open up my email, and screaming in my inbox in “Japan Surrenders”-sized boldface type is the headline “Pickleball is the most popular game for Americans to learn. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. No need to turn up the hype machine to 11. ![]() And everybody from your bored teenager to your devious-dinker grandmama is playing it.īut chill out, people. We here at Murmurs from the Losers’ Bracket are getting weary over all the stories that find new ways to gush over pickleball.
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