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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s a Wednesday morning, and one by one, the familiar Hurricane faces make their way into the nondescript North Miami warehouse near the corner of Northeast 150th Street and 19th Avenue. In walks ...

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 ...

If you told me that every employee at Milford Jai-Alai had a job lined up, I wouldn't blink twice at the loss of Connecticut's last remaining fronton. There have been charges and recriminations ...

The Orlando Jai Alai fronton in Fern Park is a local landmark. The hulking relic with its giant teal lettering and sun-bleached facade looms in the distance over U.S. Highway 17-92. A half-lit neon ...

This essay is part of a series this month, coinciding with the concept of Flagship February, wherein we intend to revisit the flagship beers of regional craft breweries, reflect on their influence ...