Wayland Patch 6/25/11: Afternoon Pickleball at The Longfellow Club. It involves paddles, but it isn't table tennis; it involves a net-divided court, but it isn't tennis; it involves a wiffle ball; but there is no wiffle bat in sight. It's pickleball, a unique sport in and of itself that has nothing to do with pickles. The sport was named after cocker spaniel of the co-inventors, which chased the stray balls around the court before hiding in the bushes, according to the U.S. Pickleball Association website.

Metrowest Daily News 1/29/11: At Wayland club, they're taking a shot at pickleball. Let the record show Joe Bausk and Dick Gellis are the pioneers who brought the sport of pickleball to MetroWest and maybe to the entire Bay State. The program coordinator at the Longfellow Club in Wayland, Gellis has been braving blizzards and soggy socks on Friday mornings to teach the game's rudiments to a handful of enthusiastic adult learners on the kid-sized courts of the Zip Zone. Played on a badminton-sized court and named after its co-inventor's cocker spaniel Pickles who liked to grab loose balls with its teeth, pickleball combines elements of pingpong and platform tennis.