Todd Boss Pickleball Link Page
Todd Boss Pickleball Links Page
Hi, I cover pickleball for Forbes Magazine's online sports blog called SportsMoney.
This is a quick bookmark page I use as a jumping off point for the resources I depend on to do my reporting.
Resources I maintain
- My Forbes Article Archive: I've been writing 7-8 articles/month since January 2023 about Pickleball.
- Master Pickleball Schedule: this has every major event in one place for every pro and int'l entity
- Pro Medal Tracker: a full list of every medal for ever pro event since the beginning of each tour.
Also has US Open and USA Pickleball Nationals event to their beginnings, Triple Crowns, Prize Money, Points, etc.
- Senior Pro Medal Tracker: Senior Pro Medal winners, separated out from the Pro tracker
- PPA Number 1 Reigns: The detailed reigns of every player who has been ranked #1 on tour on the PPA.
I wrote about this in depth in Jan 2026 at Forbes at this link,
using this XLS as a basis.
- Pickleball Pro Player Profiles: a periodically updated resource where I try to capture Profile and
Bio data for Pickleball pros. I've got more than 360 current/former pros listed, which includes 150+ pros no longer under contract
- My Twitter Pickleball List: more than 250 Pickleball-only Twitter accounts; you can follow this list like many do to get nothing but PB feed.
Pickleball Coverage Fast Links: here's my go-to links to cover the sport
Master Pickleball Schedule:
PPA Tour Home Page, Facebook, Schedule, Rankings
PPA Asia Tour Home page, Facebook, Schedule, Rankings
PPA Australia Tour Home page , Facebook, Schedule, Rankings
APP Tour Home Page, Facebook, Schedule, Rankings
MLP Home Page, Facebook, 2026 Schedule, 2026 Standings, 2026 player Stats
MyDUPR player dashboard
PPA Player bios at ppatour.com
PPA Player bios at pickleball.com
picklewave.com
picklekey.com
Pro Pickleball links
Data Sites for getting Pro stats, Player Info, etc.
Senior Pickleball Associations (note I wrote about the State of Senior Pro Pickleball in March 2026).
International Organizations
Pickleball Journalists and News sites. Direct links to lead writers' twitter feeds
Leading Podcasts and Content Creators that I like.
- King of the Court (KOTC): Jimmy Miller (GM of California Black Bears MLP team) and Tyler Loong (long-time pro player) with in-depth Pro tour coverage
- PicklePod with Zane Navratil and Nico the Lefty: Pro coverage plus industry news
- Bad Calls (formerly Tennis Sucks: Travis Rettenmaier & Graham D'Amico hosts: some pro coverage, Florida based owners of St. Pete Athletic and the Florida Smash MLP team.
- Pickleballers: newish podcast from Jared Paul (founder of the Kitchen) and Roscoe Bellamy; lots of top-end interviews.
- Zane Navratil Facebook Series: Zane Navratil (long time pro player) and presidentof UPA-A player's council does short videos on timely news in teh sport
- Nico the Leftyhis instagram page where he's publishing daily content
- Poachers Podcast with Matthew Liggett & Spencer Rodak
- Balls Deep hosted by touring pros Ava Ignatowich & Camila Zilveti
- John Kew Pickleball, the leading independent voice in the industry related to Paddles and Paddle testing
- Selkirk TV, including Paul Olsons "Future of Pickleball" series
- Sorry Not SorryChris Cali's great video clips of pro events, line calls, viral moments, etc.
- Memes of Pickleball: The best Pickleball Meme shop out there.
- Tanner Tomassi Pickleball: 2025 Dink Award for best content creator pro player Tanner Tomassi with great instructional videos
- Others out there that I don't regularly listen to but which are highly regarded: Pickleball Studio,Pickleball Cheat Code, Cracked Paddles, Pickleball Pursuit, Pickleball U, Pickleball Effect
Now-defunct podcasts or content creators
- Talk Pickle to Me: Kaitlyn Kerr's 2025 interview series, defunct since May 2025
- The Drop podcast wtih Anna Bright & Dylan Frazier: defunct since Sept 2023
- The McGuffin Show, defunct since Aug 2025
- The Stack podcast with Jon Laaser, owner of Performance Pickleball RVA
- This PIckleball Life with Jill Braverman and her partner KDub: defunct since July 2025
- Conversations with DJ Young: defucnt since Sept 2025
- Inside MLP Podcast: defunct since Oct 2023
- It Feels Right with Adam Stone & Rob Nunnery: was a great podcast, defuct since April 2025, likely timed with Nunnery's medical issues
- NML Pickleball Podcast with Slim & Gritty: defuct since Nov 2023, though they still write periodically
- Pickleballers.io podcast: defunct sinxe Apr 2024
Amateur US Domestic Tournament Operators: These are organizations mostly in the US who run amateur tournaments across the country but who aren't associatd with the Pro tours.
National Governing Bodies (NGBs): USAP has goverend the sport domestically for decades, while the UPA-A came into being in order to address what they perceived as paddle testing deficiencies in USAP as well as the
need to focus on the pro game governance.
International Governing Bodies. note: I wrote about all the and their history at length in Dec 2025 at this link.
Collegiate Tours and Programs
Rating systems; not to be confused with "Ranking" systems used by pro tours.
- USA Pickleball Standard Skill Ratings: These are the classical 3.0-5.0 skill level ratings we all use
- Dynamic Universal Pickleball Ranking (DUPR): started as Dreamland Universal Pickleball Ranking
- Universal Tennis Rating - Pickleball (UTR-P)
- Visually Assessed International Rating (VAIR): a new competitor to DUPR founded to address limitations
- (obsolete) USA Pickleball Tournament Player Ranking (UTPR): USA Pickleball's proprietary internal ranking system; abandoned when they went to UTR-P and eventually DUPR.
- (obsolete) World Pickleball Ratings (WPR): this rating system was developed by Pickleball Tournaments, but was abandoned when PT was sold to the Dundon group and they focused on their new PBR rating
- (obsolete) Pickleball Brackets Ratings (PBR): this rating system was developed during the time when DUPR & Kuhn were at odds with Dundon & PPA. Abandoned when DUPR brought back into the fold
- (obsolete) WPF and IPF international Rating systems: used by these now defuct international governing bodies during international play. DUPR now the standard.
- Here's an old article from pb.vision about the old rating systems that are now obsolete.
Tournament Management Software (TMS) platforms.
- Pickleball Tournaments
- Pickleball Brackets: obsoleted, now part of pickleball tournaments
- Pickleball Den: partners with US Open, APP
- UTR Sports: was partnered with USAP and APP, no longer as of 1/1/26.
- lesser offerings in the space: R2sports, Swish, Playbook365, Scoreholio, Stadium, Pickleball manager
Links to "National" Stories done on the sport. These are links from "mainstream" media sources and are in rough chronological order of major news sites covering the sport.
- A Passion for Pickleball, The Hottest thing in Seattle, 2/10/97 Sports Illustrated by Jon Wertheim, the first ever major publication
- Can Pickleball Save America, 7/25/22 New Yorker Magazine
- Pickleball is the Wild, Wild West, 12/29/22 Sports Illustrated
- How to make fast Friends while traveling; play Pickleball, 1/16/23 NY Times.
- The Kitchen's Recipe for Successbroken Yahoo nat'l story
- Meet this pro pickleball player earning six figures at 16 years old, 3/29/23, Fortune Magazine
- The Teen Dominating Professional Pickleball, 6/8/23 Sports Illustrated
- Why I hate Pickleball, 5/8/23 Washington Post Rick Reilly op-ed
- Pickleball Craze drives major shifts in retail landscape, 9/5/23 Washington Post
- Matt Manasse interview on Matthew Perry, 10/29/23 People Magazine