JAM Arena Debuts as World Jai-Alai League Launches Ninth Season Feb. 13

The World Jai-Alai League(WJAL) will kick off a fresh chapter for the sport of professional jai-alai when it opens its ninth ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

End of an era: Jai alai players reminisce about now-demolished Casino Fort Pierce fronton

Benny Bueno did not want to play jai alai when he was introduced to the game at 10 years old. Seven years later, he went pro in 1981. Steev Ramsdell was told he would never go pro when he began ...
WLRN

Fits like a cesta: The world’s first female professional Jai Alai player

Back in the 1980s, Becky Smith would walk into the bar at the Miami Jai Alai Fronton, a glamorous, high-stakes gambling palace often referred to as the “Yankee Stadium of Jai Alai.” She wasn’t there ...
AOL

Goodbye, jai alai? Players and fans hope to save the sport in the U.S.

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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Jai alai is fronton and center among bettors

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