Jai alai, one of the most popular sports in the U.S. in the 80s, has recently fallen by the wayside. One professional league still remains and is based in Miami.

The Casino at Dania Beach in Broward County ended its 70-year jai alai run last year, and Casino Miami has mercifully shut down the fronton I visited, but there’s one holdout aiming to keep jai ...

Dennis Dalton, known by the moniker "El Barba," Spanish for "The Beard," competes in a doubles Jai Alai match in the fronton at Magic City Casino, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Miami.

Jai Alai Hasn’t Been Hot Since ‘Miami Vice’ Days. A Florida Casino Wants to Change That. Former baseball and football players are recruited to breathe new life into the high-velocity betting ...

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 ...

What could be jai alai’s curtain call is playing out at Magic City Casino, the last place the game is played as a professional sport. Gone are the celebrities like Paul Newman and John Travolta ...

Dennis Dalton, known by the moniker “El Barba,” Spanish for “The Beard,” competes in a doubles Jai Alai match in the fronton at Magic City Casino, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Miami.

Now, a group of committed enthusiasts is doing all it can to save jai alai, a game that originated in the Basque region of Spain and France but took root in Miami during the go-go days of the 1970s ...