Hello, and welcome to Mind of Micah today, it's part two of the Pickleball story.

Can Pickleball save America?

It's also a reminder that Sunday is the first ever Micah's yoga club.

Come meet me, say hello, and get in a good sweat at meanwhile brewing at 9 a.m. Sunday

morning in Austin, Texas, Southeast Austin, out by the airport, it's easy to get to

lots of parking, 9 a.m. and the first drinks on me, all you have to do is come say hi,

it's Micah's yoga club, okay, got it, get it, got it, good, drink coffee or beer, whatever

you want, Micah's yoga club, Sunday, 9 a.m. All right, on to part two of the read.

On the semi-final court, JW Johnson volled with Navorteil and then stoned faced in point

after point, methodically delivered the ball to an unreachable back corner of his opponent's

side. In victory, Johnson looked wildly happy as when Tiger Woods after a stoic putt finally

allows himself to smile. Julian Georgia chaired him on, all three would win gold. Navorteil

quietly greeted his girlfriend at that time the reigning Miss West Conson. They walked

off looking a bit sombre. Sombre should say before a chipper young woman popped up and

asked for a selfie. I'm a fan of you both, she said.

Pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington by three dads. Joel Pritchard,

a Republican state representative and later a U.S. congressman, Bill Bell, a businessman,

and Barney McCallum, a printing company owner. The men and their families who lived in

nearby Seattle, summered on the Bainbridge and they wanted to amuse their board kids after

returning from a game of golf. The Pritchard's house had a bad mitten court, but there wasn't

enough functional equipment to yield a game so the dads used paddles and a wiffle ball

and lowered the net to three feet. They wind the game to be equally playable by kids and adults.

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