I’m Rob Nunnery. I’ve won 19 pro pickleball titles and I also live with Crohn’s and a colostomy. The newsletter gets sent 3x per week. Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Whether you follow me from pickleball or because you live with an ostomy or IBD, this newsletter is about using sport as the lens for lessons in life.
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Bag & Paddle: Still Here
Published about 6 hours ago • 1 min read
Hi there, A friend lost his wife last week. Another friend's daughter is in the hospital fighting. And I'm sitting here planning my 2026 tournament schedule. It just doesn’t add up sometimes. You do everything right and it's still not enough. My friend and his wife were controlling what they could control, staying optimistic, fighting for a clinical trial. And then it just... wasn't enough. It hit me hard, not in a way where my own stuff feels small or invalid, but in a way that pulls you out...
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