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 ...

Back in the day, jai-alai players were celebrities that would ceremoniously march out to salute crowds of 15,000 fans, but after a disastrous 1988 strike the game became nothing more than a cultural ...

Madrid-based Zeta Studios, producer of Netflix mega hit “Elite,” has boarded Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival honoree Julio Medem’s first foray into television, “Jai Alai.” It joins L.A. and Mexico ...

Miami is the last best hope to save jai-alai from extinction, and Magic City Casino – now the only place in North America where the game is still played professionally – thinks it has found a new ...

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — Players and others who make a living from the once-popular sport of jai alai hope the closing of the last fronton, or court, at The Casino at Dania Beach is not the end of their ...

Once upon a time, jai alai was just as popular in the United States as horse racing and greyhound racing, where the average fan could walk into a casino, place a bet on a match and watch in real-time.

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 ...