by Mike Melendez | Jul 17, 2017 | Weekly Player Profile
Tony Cascella By Dave Siegel By now, most of you know the miraculous, heroic story of Tony Cascella, the focus of the “Welcome Back Tony” tournament held last September at Staten Island. In January, 2016 he was stricken with sudden cardiac arrest while...
by Mike Melendez | Jul 13, 2017 | Blogs
I Got Next!?? “I got next!”, the slogan of the PFA, has a different meaning in Midland Beach, Staten Island. A player can’t simply pick the court and partner he or she likes and wait it out until it’s time to get on (zzzzz….). Is this...
by Mike Melendez | Jul 9, 2017 | Weekly Player Profile
Jay Brown Jay reminds me more of a power forward basketball player instead of a paddleball player. He is a hard hitting right handed paddleball player from the Bronx with a ton of potential to become one of the sport’s elite player. He started playing the game...
by Mike Melendez | Jul 3, 2017 | Weekly Player Profile
Matthew Ramos Mathew, “The Sniper”, is a powerful right handed player in his late 20s. He is a quite Paddleball gentleman of few words on the courts. But do not let his on court quite demeanor fool you, on the court he is a hungry lion constantly...
by Mike Melendez | Jun 27, 2017 | Editorial
As most of you are aware, the PFA Rules Committee has just updated the paddleball rules and I urge all of you to read and understand them. During the last couple of years, as I read the dialogue on the PFA Facebook page, the extent of diverging interpretations of the...
