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Ridgewood NJ, Major League Pickleball is getting new leadership as it looks to capitalize on the rise of America’s fastest-growing sport at the professional level. The team-based pro pickleball league announced Wednesday it has named finance and media executive Julio DePietro as its chief executive officer and former NFL executive Bruce Popko as chief operating officer.
Over 36.5 million people played pickleball from August 2021 to August 2022, according to a report by the Association of Pickleball Professionals .
But Pickleball is not without controversy according to the New York Times ,” The incessant pop-pop-pop of the fast-growing sport has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight. ”
Bloomberg said , “Pickleball injuries could cost almost $400 million in U.S. healthcare bills this year, according to UBS, which predicts 67,000 emergency-room visits; 366,000 outpatient visits; 4,700 hospitalizations; and 20,000 “post-acute episodes.” Which Brian Levine the former interim CEO of Major League Pickleball called “Big Tennis Propaganda”
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