Parade Magazine: What's All the Racket About Pickleball? Everything You Need to Know About the Growing Sport

Pickleball. Have you heard of it? It’s that incredibly popular tennis-and-Ping-Pong hybrid that everyone’s playing, from Ellen DeGeneres (“I’m obsessed with it”) to most of the residents of Naples, Florida, it seems. (One center with 60 courts calls itself “the Pickleball Capital of the World.”)

As if pickleball weren’t hot enough already, here’s something else to add to the buzz. America’s bounciest, most-talked-about game is also really good for rhyming.

So says Penn Holderness, co-creator with his wife, Kim, of a viral rap video called “the Pickleball Song.” The Holdernesses recently achieved fame as the winners of The Amazing Race on CBS. But before that they were simply a hilarious pair of YouTubers who mined their marriage and family life for comedy gold and a billion views.  Read More