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Dinks On Tap: The Happy Hour Pickleball Podcast

Dinks On Tap: The Happy Hour Pickleball Podcast

How College Football's Wild West is a Warning Every Pickleball Player Should Hear with Jay Paterno

May 6, 2026 · 50m

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This week, Casie and Lauren sit down with Jay Paterno, son of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno, and author of Blitzed: The All-Out Pressure of College Football's New Era. This one is part sports conversation, part cultural temperature check, and we did what we do best: take a sports story and find the human behavior hiding underneath it. Because it turns out that money, pressure, loyalty, ego, and identity do not stay neatly on the football field. They show up everywhere people care deeply about something, including a 20X44 pickleball court with a plastic ball and a surprisingly complicated rulebook. In this episode we talk about: The trick Jay uses to tell the truth (and why it lands…