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The sport once held the world record for ball speed with a 125–140 g ball covered with goatskin that traveled at 302 km/h (188 mph), performed by José Ramón Areitio at the Newport, Rhode Island Jai Alai, until it was broken by Canadian 5-time long drive champion Jason Zuback on a 2007 episode of Sport Science with a golf ball speed of 328 ...
Real Club España, A.C., simply known as Real España or Club España, is a Mexican sports club located in Mexico City.The club hosted a large variety of sports and other activities such as aerobics, basque pelota, billiards, canoeing, climbing wall, football, gymnastics, jai alai, mountaineering, paddle tennis, paleta frontón, rowing, Spanish dances, squash, swimming, tennis, volleyball ...
Pelota (Spanish for ball) can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games: Basque pelota; Chaza; Jai alai; Mesoamerican ballgame; Palla; Pelota mixteca; Valencian pilota; Frontenis; Pétanque; Racketlon; Pelota (boat), an improvised skin boat for crossing rivers.
Whirlyball is a team sport that combines elements of basketball and jai alai with players riding "Whirlybugs", small electric vehicles similar to bumper cars. Because play requires a special court, it is played in only a handful of locations in the United States and Canada. Amateur Whirlyball game in progress
Jai Alai is the imported US American name of the game known in Basque as saski-pilota (basket-ball, literally - though real basketball is called saskibaloia in Basque) and in Spanish as cesta-punta (basket-point, probably meanining pointed basket).
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The institution was first established in 1973 as Ocala Jai-alai, which was a branch office of the Miami fronton. [6] [7] At one time, the jai alai performances could attract about 2,000 people. [8] However, jai alai declined in popularity, so in 2008 the name was changed to Ocala Poker & Jai Alai with the focus shifted to poker. [7]
Francisco Maria Churruca Iriondo Azpiazu Alcorta (born 1 April 1936), also known as Patxi, is a Spanish former jai alai player. A native of Mutriku, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, [1] [2] he is regarded as the game's greatest player [3] [4] and has been called "the Babe Ruth of jai alai."