Thursday 8/17/23 - Chicago Pickleball Team Owner Ron Saslow

The Dog Walk

Barstool Sports

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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(00:00) Intro (1:55) How it started (3:20) MLP (6:15) Sport growth (7:07) Team/Tournament breakdown (12:54) Taking over tennis? (18:09) Contrack talk (22:21) Other paddle sports (23:33) Car crash story (24:58) Outro Ron Saslow from 'Chicago Slice' joins the show to talk about Pickleball. We get into how he got into the sport, how its recently taken off, the newest and best athletes in the game, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey dog walk listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
0:06.4	Prime members can listen to Ed free on Amazon Music.
0:09.4	All right, on today's episode of the dog walk, I talked to Ron Sassel, the owner of the Chicago
0:13.6	Slice, which is Chicago's major league pickleball team.
0:16.8	Very interesting interview.
0:17.8	I knew next to nothing about pickleball, so I was pretty fascinated to hear about how
0:22.1	it's going and how it's taking away from tennis, which shocked me, which I know probably
0:26.7	hurts the tennis people, but regardless, I think you'll enjoy the interview and before
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