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Lopsided Ben Johns Trade Leads to Big Questions Surrounding Competitive Integrity of MLP

July 21, 2025July 24, 2025 admin 18 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

It’s being billed as the biggest trade in pickleball history, but it should represent something far different in the early

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Random Thoughts 

MLP St. Louis 2025 – EOD Musings

July 17, 2025July 20, 2025 admin 1 Comment major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

St. Louis is hosting their first ever MLP event and it is one that the Chaifetz family has said would

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News Opinion 

New Jersey Trades for Noe Khlif as 5’s Remain in Championship or Bust Mode

July 16, 2025July 16, 2025 admin 5 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

Challenger is still alive for 2026, and in classic MLP fashion, that means the trade deadline was pushed back until

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Takeaways 

MLP Beer City Open (Midseason Tournament) 2025 – 6 Takeaways – Is Dallas Unbeatable?

July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 admin 2 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

It has been a lot of MLP over the past couple of months, but that didn’t seem to put a

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Opinion 

Quang Duong is Done with UPA Following Another Brazen Breach of Contract

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 admin 9 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

In one of the most bizarre sequence of events for pro pickleball, news broke on Saturday morning that Quang Duong

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Random Thoughts 

MLP Beer City Open 2025 – EOD Musings

July 10, 2025July 13, 2025 admin 0 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

5 days of (sort of) double elimination MLP tournament style play gives us a nice reprieve from the standard events

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Takeaways 

MLP New York 2025 – 5 Takeaways – No Surprise

July 8, 2025 admin 4 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We had some reservations about having pickleball over the Independence Day long weekend, and the anecdotal situation with MLP in

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Random Thoughts 

MLP New York 2025 – EOD Musings

July 3, 2025July 6, 2025 admin 6 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are running it back for another event to give some end of day thoughts throughout the weekend. What better

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Previews 

MLP New York 2025 – Preview

July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 admin 0 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

It’s Independence Day weekend so what better time is there to have an MLP event? The event is in New

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Takeaways 

MLP San Clemente 2025 – 7 Takeaways – Stock Watch

June 30, 2025 admin 14 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are getting into the dog days of summer with a lot of events happening consecutively in this MLP season.

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