Can you throw a ball hard as a hockey puck at 150 miles per hour with a basket strapped to your hand? You may be thinking, ...

The decline of Jai Alai was not caused by a single factor but rather a series of events that gradually weakened its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Newport Grand property has a long history, from a jai alai fronton to a casino, and is now set for a major redevelopment.

JUAN RAMÓN ARRASATE had witnessed the rise and fall of jai alai in Miami. Now, he was preparing to see the new faces of the game. Arrasate had arrived in Miami from Spain in 1978 and played for 20 ...

DANIA BEACH (CBSMiami) -- It is the end of an era at The Casino @ Dania Beach, which announced on Wednesday morning the 2021 Jai-Alai season will be its last. The final Jai-Alai game will be played in ...

An elegant man took a seat at a beaten up bench with a view of the jai-alai court in front of him, his red tie knotted just so, his hair slicked back just so, his hands crossed in front of him just so ...