By Straymar The exciting and fast-paced action of short-court Jai-Alai returns to the Magic City Jai-Alai court at 4-pm on Saturday, May 1st. Magic City Jai-Alai fans have been anxiously awaiting the return of Magic City phenom Douglas who missed a large portion of the 2021 10-week mini-season due to a wrist injury. Douglas will […]
Richard (Dick) Gerrity (center), ex-FBI agent, became Tampa’s popular General Manager in late 1974. Giles Ellis, Jr (l) was Asst. GM and helped run Ocala Jai-Alai with Gerrity. I (r.) became Dick’s Jai-Alai mentor. With the threat of unionization of the players now gone, the Board of Directors of World Jai-Alai could resume its strategy, […]
By Jeff “Laca” Conway The J Laca Museum has acquired a few mementos from the Rastock Collection, giving the museum a drastic change in appearance from just a year ago. About a year ago, several new walls were installed as most of Mark K’s artifacts were acquired. With the exception of a visit by Jesus […]
By Loren Harris The inaugural International Youth training camp was held recently at Fronton Salas April 3rd thru 9th in Cancun Mexico. We had 20 young pelotais from the Basque country and from Puebla and Tijuana. In addition we had Fronton Maexico pelotaris Julen Del Rio and Daniel Inclan in attendance and played some exhibition matches […]
By Jeff Laca Conway Here are the results from Matt’s Tournament recently held at his court in Berlin, Connecticut. Special thanks from Thomas Fillmore for supplying us the information. Photo credit to Anthony “Ant” Sutton who fell during Thursday practice and suffered serious rotator cuff injury. Division 1 Matt and John took Gino Mace Joe […]
By Straymar What’s New for Magic City in May 2021? Magic City’s regular season from May 1 through November brings lots of changes. The biggest change to the roster will be the return of Douglas from his wrist injury rehabilitation which will make the late games even more competitive. The regular season schedule includes six […]
Ricky Solaun (left) showed bravery and fearlessness on and off the court. I’m proud to be his brother. By Marty Fleischman Sitting in the general manager’s office at Tampa Jai-Alai was always a little stressful. But, on this day, I was not listening to Ernie Larsen’s diatribe of epithets but awaiting the new “Big Three” […]
By Jeff “Laca” Conway The dreaded word that starts with the letter “D” is back. The decoupling issue has come up again but this time it is being proposed outside of any proposal or deal that would include the Seminole Tribe and Sports Betting. That issue has been a big “Bermuda Triangle” of trouble for […]
(Picture above was from a previous tournament and many of those pictured are not there) By Jeff Laca Conway There will be plenty of live jai-alai action in Berlin Connecticut this weekend. CLICK THIS LINK TO WATCH: https://www.facebook.com/connecticutamateurjaialailive/ Jai-alai savior Matt DiDomiizio has put together one of his best lineups to date – 38 players […]
By Jeff “Laca” Conway Berlin Connecticut will be rocking with lots of Jai-alai action next weekend as 37 players are signed up to play in a big tournament planned for April 9-11th. Matt DiDomizio will be hosting his first tournament in nearly two years, but the vast majority of the players that have signed up […]
