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 ...

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, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The historic Miami Jai-Alai venue is rebranding and renovating its entertainment space. The 1,500-seat venue to be known as JAM Arena (short for Jai-Alai Miami ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DANIA BEACH, Fla. — Players and others who make a living from the once-popular sport of jai alai hope the closing of the last ...

A new documetary centers around the largely forgotten sport of Jai Alai, whose history is tied to the Miami of the 1980s. At that time thousands would fill arenas to watch players use cestas to launch ...

Jai-Alai players compete in a night match, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at The Casino @ Dania Beach. After almost 70 years the sport of Jai-Alai is ending at the casino. It’s the end of an era as the ...

The world’s fastest moving ball sport of jai alai is making a triumphant return to the fronton at The Casino at Dania Beach. The 2022-23 Dania Beach Invitational Jai-Alai Tournament will feature over ...

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 ...

If you thought Jai Alai was a fictional sport invented solely for Mad Men and the opening credits of Miami Vice, you'd be wrong. It is in fact a dangerous ball game where a wad of wire and goatskin is ...

A new gambling facility near downtown Miami won approval to move forward from a state agency Tuesday, which could bring another poker and jai-alai option near downtown Miami within the next two years.