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 ...

MIAMI, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Jai-Alai League (WJAL) will kick off a fresh chapter for the sport of professional jai-alai when it opens its ninth competitive Battle Court season Friday ...

If you thought Jai Alai was a fictional sport invented solely for Mad Men and the opening credits of Miami Vice, you'd be wrong. It is in fact a dangerous ball game where a wad of wire and goatskin is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The historic Miami Jai-Alai venue is rebranding and renovating its entertainment space. The 1,500-seat venue to be known as JAM Arena (short for Jai-Alai Miami ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Jai alai, the world's fastest ball sport, originated in the Basque region of Spain and France but took root in Miami during the go-go days of the 1970s and '80s. However, for the ...

Jai-Alai players compete in a night match, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at The Casino @ Dania Beach. After almost 70 years the sport of Jai-Alai is ending at the casino. It’s the end of an era as the ...

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, ...

Gorka Bilbao Ramos' documentary on the lightning-fast sport premiered in the Basque section of the Spanish festival. By Neil Young The fastest — and arguably most cinematic — of all sports gets rare ...