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The first jai alai fronton in the United States was located in St. Louis, Missouri, operating around the time of the 1904 World's Fair. From 1988–1991, the International Jai-Alai Players Association held the longest strike in American professional sport. After the 1988 season, the players, 90% of them Basque, returned home and threatened not ...
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."
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
A noted cải lương singer, Ngọc Huyền Popular artist Mộng Tuyền performs the leading role in a Cải lương Presentation Tuồng cải lương (Vietnamese: [tûəŋ ka᷉ːj lɨəŋ], Hán-Nôm: 從改良) often referred to as Cải lương (Chữ Hán: 改良), roughly "reformed theater") is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam.
There is an abandoned Jai alai court [1] in the back of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, the site of the old Casa de Beneficencia, on Calles Concordia and Lucenas near Calle Belascoain, an area that had been considered in the early part of the city as a place to locate the helpless and the unwanted (Casa de Beneficencia, Hospital de San Lázaro, the Espada Cemetery, Casa de Dementes de San ...
Concurrently, Kyuranger members Stinger, Hammie, and Spada search for Lucky, but track Minato's guitar to a warehouse, where the Lupinrangers and BN thieves learn that Lipig is working with Don Arkage, who intends to use the Hyper Planedium in Minato's guitar to become invincible. The Lupinrangers and Kyurangers confront the two and defeat ...
The article states that jai alai is the facility where the sport is played (as opposed to the sport itself). According to my Webster's dictionary (and the usage I have heard my entire life), jai alai refers to the sport, not the facility where the sport is played.
The Manila Jai Alai Building was a building designed by American architects Welton Becket and Walter Wurdeman that functioned as a building for which jai alai games were held. [1] It was built in the Streamline Moderne style in 1940 and survived the Battle of Manila. [2] It was considered as the finest Art Deco building in Asia, until its ...