Jai alai is a racquetball-type sport that originated in Spain. Why was it so popular in the United States and Florida?

Boxing promoter Don King could lose control of the Palm Beach Jai Alai as part of $32 million foreclosure lawsuit ...

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, ...

The world’s fastest ball sport has been dying a slow death for decades. Now, a group of committed enthusiasts is doing all it can to save jai alai, a game that originated in the Basque region of Spain ...

Earlier this summer, we documented the dying sport of jai alai in Orlando, but it seems we weren’t the only ones intrigued by what was going on at Orlando Jai Alai. New York director Drew Blatman ...

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 ...

"To me, jai-alai is a destination," Raminsky said, sitting in the front row of a near-empty Dania Jai-Alai at a recent Tuesday matinee. "For most people, it's just a stopping point, or something to ...

Back in the 1980s, Becky Smith would walk into the bar at the Miami Jai Alai Fronton, a glamorous, high-stakes gambling palace often referred to as the “Yankee Stadium of Jai Alai.” She wasn’t there ...

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The world’s fastest moving ball sport of jai alai is making a triumphant return to the fronton at The Casino at Dania Beach. The 2022-23 Dania Beach Invitational Jai-Alai Tournament will feature over ...

The sport of jai alai might not have a wide following, but its complex scoring system “has interesting mathematical properties that just beg the techno-geek to try to exploit it,” writes Steven Skiena ...