: a court game somewhat like handball played usually by two or four players with a ball and a long curved wicker basket strapped to the wrist
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Grievance of the week Coaching matters in football more than in any other sport — basketball, baseball, pickleball, jai alai, whatever.
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Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
An arrangement with the sports-betting website BetRivers allows wagering on jai alai matches in seven states, providing potential new revenue for the casino, which has yet to turn a profit on jai alai.
—Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
For about 70 years, the South Florida sporting public has been entertained by jai alai that allowed legalized gambling with thousands of fans cheering on the action.
—Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
But there the similarity between jai alai and the gallopers ends — in jai alai the participants go at top speed all the way, and if horses could be counted upon to do the same, there’d be no trouble at all in trying to pick winners.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
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Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
An arrangement with the sports-betting website BetRivers allows wagering on jai alai matches in seven states, providing potential new revenue for the casino, which has yet to turn a profit on jai alai.
—Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
For about 70 years, the South Florida sporting public has been entertained by jai alai that allowed legalized gambling with thousands of fans cheering on the action.
—Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
But there the similarity between jai alai and the gallopers ends — in jai alai the participants go at top speed all the way, and if horses could be counted upon to do the same, there’d be no trouble at all in trying to pick winners.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
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“Jai alai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jai%20alai. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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