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 ...
Ryan Esdale would not have been born without jai-alai in Dania Beach. Reflecting on how his favorite sport has shaped his family and his entire life, he shares what makes the game significant even as ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
For much of the 20th century, the sport of jai alai was a big deal — not just in Basque Country, where it originated, but around the world. In the '60s, it was marketed to Americans as the next big ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Both sides of the issue gave a House gambling panel dire warnings Thursday as lawmakers consider allowing Florida's pari-mutuel operators to do away with horse and dog racing or ...
Benny Bueno did not want to play jai alai when he was introduced to the game at 10 years old. Seven years later, he went pro in 1981. Steev Ramsdell was told he would never go pro when he began ...
A new gambling facility near downtown Miami won approval to move forward from a state agency Tuesday, which could bring another poker and jai-alai option near downtown Miami within the next two years.
Bennie Bueno remembers when Jai-alai players were the toast of Miami back in the 1970s and 80s. “You had the Miami Dolphins, the Orange Bowl and Miami Jai-alai,” Bueno told a recent ESPN documentary. ...
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 ...
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