A man getting ready to serve during a game of pickleball.
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Pickleball is now the official sport of Washington.
Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5615 into law Monday afternoon during a ceremony at the Bainbridge Island home-court where the sport was invented in 1965. He was joined by community members Stu Upson — the CEO of Pickleball USA — and state Sen. John Lovick, the bill’s sponsor.
Inslee began the ceremony by jokingly invoking the founding fathers, saying that all are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. “Amongst those rights being the right to life, liberty and
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