Sentences with word «alai»
It requires years of practice and top conditioning to acquire the skill necessary to be a top jai alai player.
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«For 40 years no one had taken a hard look at jai alai in the state of Florida,» says Captain Sheets.
What about collegiate jai alai matches?
I've watched spectators at jai alai frontons.
Bulger cynically strings him along with titbits of often outdated information, while exploiting the FBI's generosity to expand his crime empire into the once - huge jai - alai craze and even shipping guns to the IRA.
«Black Mass» has her in a cast that, in addition to Depp and Edgerton, includes Jesse Plemons as Kevin Weeks, Benedict Cumberbatch as Billy Bulger, and Peter Sarsgaard as Whitey's jai alai associate Brian Halloran.
Chances are The Flaming C skin (featuring the character's trademark costume consisting of an oven mitt, a jai alai glove, and ski goggles) will be available to the general public as an alternative look for Superman around the same time as Zod's release.
He was an accomplished bobsledder, swimmer and jai alai player — a superb athlete.
Actually the curve is only five - sixteenths off the straight, but it gives the shooter the feeling that he is catching the puck and then throwing it at the goal, like a lacrosse or jai alai player.
It's like betting on jai - alai.
People flock here from every section of the country, go to see jai alai, and become great fans.
FRANK M. STEVENS New York President Catering concern Yes, just as I would continue going to horse races if there were no betting, because jai alai is a great sport.
Jai alai is one of the fastest sports in the world, as fast as the popular game of I hockey.
Jai alai and horse racing would both die without gambling.
That's because jai alai is faster than hockey.
True, jai alai is a great game, but we all feel the lure of a gamble.
Cuban jai alai is even more fascinating.
And jai alai is much faster.
Jai alai would be well received in New York if properly controlled and directed.
BOB HOUSTON Mayor of Dania Yes, because the skill of the players and the excitement of the sport is the chief appeal of jai alai.
No sport demands more of a competitor in skill, liming, position play and stamina than jai alai.
Jai alai is not a good sports spectacle.
Jai alai is an evening sport, one of the first things my northern friends want to see.
And the dilapidated courts simply remind us of something we used to pretend to care about, like jai alai, Jane Fonda tapes, and perhaps recreation as a whole.
Why, we even have a postdoc now who plays semiprofessional jai alai!»
The fastest ball sport in the world is jai alai, in which a ball is caught and thrown at speeds of around 188 mph, using a scoop made of good, old - fashioned wicker.
Back in the day, jai - alai players were celebrities that would ceremoniously march out to salute crowds of 15,000 fans, but after a disastrous 1988 strike the game became nothing more than a cultural afterthought.