Explore the history of Jai Alai from its peak in Miami to its dramatic decline.

The world’s fastest ball sport has been dying a slow death for decades. Now, a group of committed enthusiasts is doing all it can to save jai alai, a game that originated in the Basque region of Spain ...

One hundred and 50 miles per hour. That’s the estimated speed of the ball that goes careening toward a Jai-Alai player’s face after bouncing off the far wall. In that moment, he's calculating the ball ...

Before it was a casino, it housed high-speed jai alai matches. Now, the Newport Grand Casino is going nowhere fast.

A hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men—such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played ...