“Pickleball will save America. A lot of people think we’re going to have a civil war if this election is close. We’ve got to get people out there playing pickleball with people who will vote the other way, so they don’t want to kill each other. It sounds ridiculous and dramatic, but I kind of mean it. Pickleball can save us, and we need to be saved.” Sarah Larson in The New Yorker: Can Pickleball Save America? (Better we attack each other with wooden paddles than AR-15s.)