A spaceship travels from a planet. In one of its stopovers, an astronaut joins as a crew member to continue this journey whose destiny is to colonize and implement a lifestyle on another planet.His case is peculiar. He worked for nearly 20 years at the World Jai-Alai in management positions. After a lapse of 5 […]
It was quite a week for America’s first and only public Jai-alai cancha in the United States. Last Saturday, former French star “Danny” brought along his buddy Jean “Olharan” for a visit to the Museum and then an appearance at the St. Petersburg court. Danny was a catching machine and played in various frontons including […]
By Straymar Magic City Fronton in Miami debuts its 6th Season of pari-mutuel games (called pelota games) on Monday, February 13th at 1:30-pm. According to Stu Neiman, there will be no changes to the Pelota format for 2023. Thus, there will continue to be 8-games with the Spec 7 format (games to 7-points) and no changes […]
After the Boyd executives departed, we all had so many questions. At the meeting of both the staff and employees, they gave some very “boilerplate” answers. Employee: “Do we still have jobs?” Boyd Exec: “At this time, it is business as usual. You all have jobs.” Employee: “Do you plan on keeping the Jai-Alai operation […]
Following a two-month delay, West Flagler Associates (owners of Magic City Casino) has gained “conditional approval” of the sale their casino in what is being considering the biggest casino deal in the state of Florida’s history. The sale, estimated to be around $600 million dollars in cash*, would turn over operations to PCI Gaming, which […]
Here is some brief video from the Cancun tournament that was just held the first weekend in February. Photo and video by Arturo Salas. More images and details to come. I was fully booked to attend and play in the event, but a death of a close friend caused a late change in plans, thus […]
“Magic” Matt DiDomizio has changed the dates of his upcoming jai-alai tournament this spring in Berlin, Connecticut. The event has been postponed two weeks till the end of April – the 28-30th, again on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The reason for the change was that several players would not have been able to make […]
Iriondo #45 Retrolaza #54 History at Milford, Father of New Magic City Player Iriondo #45 Retolaza was born in 1964 and debuted professionally in 1984 at Durango Spain. He was Rookie of the Year at Miami Jai Alai (1986) and played there until the players’ strike in 1988, when he returned to Spain for the […]
By Jeff “Laca” Conway The two-month Dania Jai-alai Invitational Event is now over, with Urutia/Mandiola taking the championship by beating Iturbide/Oyhenard 21-12 late Saturday night in the finals. It was an exciting two months for the fronton, which had appeared to be destined to be a “hotel lobby” or something when it was announced jai-alai […]
I had 35 years of experience and felt few knew more about the sport of Jai-Alai than I did. I played the game and promoted the game. I had worked my way up from PR Director into management. I still maintained close ties with all the other fronton owners and management. Plus, since coming to […]
