Dania Jai-alai is officially going to reopen this year – starting December 1st for a two-month season. The State of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation – Division of the Pari-Mutual Wagering, has issued the license to conduct pari-mutuel wagering on the game of jai-alai in Dania, Florida. The season starts with an evening performance […]
By Straymar/Jabracadabra Week 6 was yet again, another amazing week of Jai-Alai H2H action. Sunday’s doubles matches started with Jeden-Nicolas improving to 4-0 by taking a straight set win over Jairo-Ben (6-5, 6-4). Next up was CRB-Douglas winning in 3 sets against Joseph-Manu (6-3, 4-6, 6-3). Bueno-Benny lost 3 points in a straight set victory […]
Puryear Park “alumni” Rocco was recently in the news for being the only former jai-alai player in history to become a jockey agent. Rocco, who named himself after his grandfather’s name, learned to play jai-alai as a teenager off the walls of a movie theatre on Dale Mabry in Tampa and then playing a few […]
I felt my heart pounding. I knew this was it. Bennett Collett, Sr., now the majority owner of World Jai-Alai, was taking over. No doubt he was going to put his own team in. World Jai-Alai had become the dominant force in the sport of Jai-Alai in the 1970s and ’80s. Our company owned four […]
I felt my heart pounding. I knew this was it. Bennett Collett, Sr., now the majority owner of World Jai-Alai, was taking over. No doubt he was going to put his own team in. He sat across from me, having just left ex-CEO Dick Donovan’s office. I had to be first on his “hit list.” […]
By Jabracadabra/Straymar Week 4 started with 7 doubles matches. The team of Inaki-Roque subbed for Jeden-Nicolas and outlasted Joseph-Manu in a 30 point, 3 set match 2-6, 6-5, 5-6. In game 6, Bueno-Benny beat Inaki-Roque 6-1, 6-4. CRB-Douglas beat Carballo-Kubala in straight sets 6-5, 6-2. Carballo-Kubala played Jairo-Ben in game 5 in a relatively low scoring […]
In the mid ’90s, revenues and attendance continued to decline at virtually all the tracks and frontons throughout the country. The Connecticut frontons, including Hartford Jai-Alai (owned by my close friends Buddy and Richie Berenson) were struggling to compete with the large Foxwoods Casino, one of the most successful Native American casinos in the nation. […]
The National Jai-alai Association completed its first week of action of its Tuesday Night Spring League March 22nd with 14 players participating and a crowd of another 15 or so attending. Seven games were played all to 10 points, single scoring. Here’s are the format and scoring works: There are a total of 14 players […]
Say Hi Li has added a new section of some great “unseen” photos of various frontons and program photos in the USA that you definitely should go check out.
In 1994, Ft Pierce Jai-Alai is sold The first time I saw them, they were waiting downstairs near the switchboard. This was not unusual since Donovan had various people waiting to talk to the president of World Jai-Alai. But these two did not look like bankers, lawyers, politicians, or any local businessman from South Florida. […]
