It's a Friday night at Miami Jai Alai and the place is dead. Only 46 seats are taken — 47 if you include the center-court spot occupied by a garbage can cordoned off by yellow police tape. Evidently, ...

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Florida is one of the few places in the country where you can still watch and bet on jai alai in local casinos. The heyday of jai alai was decades ago, but there are signs of a ...

DANIA BEACH (CBSMiami) -- It is the end of an era at The Casino @ Dania Beach, which announced on Wednesday morning the 2021 Jai-Alai season will be its last. The final Jai-Alai game will be played in ...

An elegant man took a seat at a beaten up bench with a view of the jai-alai court in front of him, his red tie knotted just so, his hair slicked back just so, his hands crossed in front of him just so ...

When Francisco Elorriaga played jai-alai professionally in the mid-1970s, fans would stream into the Orlando Jai-Alai fronton by the hundreds to watch the frenetic matches in which players used woven ...

A few years back, I drove by Casino Miami, an old-school, slots-heavy joint frequented by working-class Hispanics, and decided that today would be the day I’d check out the long forgotten and most ...

The story of how he came to learn his sport is well-told, and Wayne Pattie’s eyes crinkle in anticipation of the punch line. He was 14, youngest of the five Pattie boys living in Newport, R.I., when ...

The fastest-moving ball sport in the world is still generating interest in South Florida for sports enthusiasts seeking the thrill of competition and gamblers looking to cash in on the action with the ...

Florida gambling regulators this week gave a Miami dog track permission to ditch greyhound races but keep more lucrative slot machines and card games, in a first-of-its-kind ruling. The Department of ...