Explore the history of Jai Alai from its peak in Miami to its dramatic decline.

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, ...

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, ...

One hundred and 50 miles per hour. That’s the estimated speed of the ball that goes careening toward a Jai-Alai player’s face after bouncing off the far wall. In that moment, he's calculating the ball ...

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 ...

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.

When Francisco Elorriaga played jai-alai professionally in the mid-1970s, fans would stream into the Orlando Jai-Alai fronton by the hundreds to watch the frenetic matches in which players used woven ...

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 ...