LeBron James and Tom Brady might be big fans of pickleball—but your local homeowners association? Not so much. In a Wall Street Journal piece with terrific visuals, E.B. Solomont talks to people in communities overtaken by people who play pickleball, one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. While it's great exercise, the players emit a lot of noise pollution: blasting boomboxes, unleashing dogs, crowding the courts, and shouting wildly every time they land a point, according to disgruntled neighbors. As a result, the sport has been banned in some residential communities. |
