When we started Faith in the Kitchen, the mission was clear: apparel for players who show up with purpose. Scripture embedded, not stamped on. Premium materials. Built for the court first, and for the locker room, the car ride home, and the sideline just as hard.
That is the product. This is the paper.
Starting today, faithinthekitchen.com has a news section. Three columns, one rhythm. Each one has a different job. Together they give you a reason to check in daily, and a reason to stay.
The Three Columns
FITK Daily Dink is the headline sheet. Every morning, five to ten of the biggest pickleball stories, each with a two-sentence summary and a link to the source. No spin, no commentary, no filler. Think of it the way local news stations reshare national wire copy: we are pulling the signal off the PPA, MLP, USA Pickleball, and the pickleball trade press so you can read one tab and know what actually moved.
FITK Weekly Drive is the deeper swing. Once a week we go long on one of the stories that deserves more than two sentences. A tour result worth unpacking. A rule change with real consequences. A moment from the court community that meant something. This is the first post in that lane.
FITK Monthly ATP is the signature feature. Once a month, a spotlight on a tour player who carries the game. The vision here is the player. Their grind, their game, their why. If the product is for people who compete with purpose, this is the column that celebrates the ones doing it on the biggest courts.
Why Three Columns, Not One Blog
News moves fast. Big takes need breathing room. Player stories deserve their own space. Jamming all three into one feed flattens every one of them. Splitting them out lets each column work at the cadence that fits it: the Dink daily, the Drive weekly, the ATP monthly.
Names mattered too. Dink, Drive, ATP - the shots scale from soft to signature, and so does the effort behind each piece. You will see the pattern show up on the archive page and in the nav.
What This Is Not
This is not a founder-story blog. FITK is the brand and the product, and this news section serves the community by pointing at the sport we all love, not by turning every post into an origin story.
It is also not a podcast. There is no audio coming. We picked writing because writing is what you can read on the chair between games.
Attribution, Fair Use, and Respect for the Source
Every headline in FITK Daily Dink will link back to the outlet that did the original reporting. We are summarizing, not copying. If a publication ever wants an aggregated item pulled down, we will pull it down. The point is to make it easier for players to keep up with the sport, not to compete with the people covering it.
What You Can Expect Next
The first FITK Daily Dink edition goes up in the coming days once we finish wiring the pipeline. Weekly Drive will start alternating weeks between news deep-dives and reflections. Monthly ATP kicks off as we build relationships with players on tour.
Bookmark /news/, filter by the column that fits your appetite, and come back.
Thanks for being here from day one.