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MLP Playoffs 2025 Week 1 – Live Random Thoughts

August 15, 2025August 18, 2025 admin 6 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

Let’s bring it back for the weekend with a super thrilling couple of weeks of pickleball ahead of us. One

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Previews 

5 Burning Questions About the 2025 MLP Playoffs

August 14, 2025 admin 3 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pro pickleball

The MLP Playoffs are here and it has arrived very fast with the revamped condensed summer season. If you are

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Takeaways 

PPA Tour Bristol 2025 – 5 Takeaways – Legacy Weekend

August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 admin 2 Comments Anna Bright, Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin

Despite our belief that MLP provides the higher ceiling for the long-term growth of pro pickleball, it does feel like

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PPA Tour Bristol Open 2025 – EOD Musings

August 6, 2025August 9, 2025 admin 7 Comments pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Our first PPA Tour event in a while. It is always fun to see where players are stacking up after

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Takeaways 

MLP Salt Lake City 2025 – 6 Takeaways – The Noe Conundrum

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 admin 2 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We did it. We made it through a mostly continuous regular season of team-based pro pickleball. Imagine saying that five

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Opinion 

Is Too Much Yelling Bad for Pickleball?

July 29, 2025 admin 16 Comments APP, app tour, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We’re not going into a full takeaways post because it was a busy weekend for us and we haven’t been

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Takeaways 

MLP St. Louis 2025 – 5 Takeaways – Columbus and Brooklyn in the Mix

July 23, 2025July 24, 2025 admin 6 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

It wasn’t the best event in pro pickleball as it was promised to be by St. Louis Shock owner, Ross

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News Opinion 

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

July 21, 2025July 24, 2025 admin 17 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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  1. admin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    We are about to both play the amatuer events in Sacramento and have never both done one together so we’re…

  2. admin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    The lack of difference between events seems like a big contributor to this

  3. Dan Beeman on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    I just got done playing 2 hours of really fun pickleball with friends on our local courts. While I am…

  4. Deb Waldin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    I stopped watching PB tournaments a year ago because…watching Anna Leigh win every single time got very old. Good for…

  5. Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current Structure – NML Pickleball on Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro PickleballApril 13, 2026

    […] our 2025 Winners and Losers column, we wrote that the new schedule for pro pickleball, with the MLP season…

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