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, ...

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 ...

DOVER — Popular Spanish restaurant Jai-Alai has been forced to close until further notice after a five-alarm fire ignited above the business less than 48 hours ago. Firefighters initially entered the ...

MIAMI (AP) — 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Reports of the death of jai alai in Dania Beach, it turns out, were premature. Owners of The Casino at Dania Beach, which pulled the plug on the longtime parimutuel sport a year shy of its 70th ...

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 ...

It took years, but the legal battle between pari-mutuel companies and the Seminole Tribe of Florida's gambling compact with the state is finally over in what the Tribe called a "win-win agreement" in ...