Sentences with phrase «alai player»

It requires years of practice and top conditioning to acquire the skill necessary to be a top jai alai player.

At week's end, the police had been unable to find Juan Guardino, a 40 - year - old jai alai player and native of Spain, to arrest him on identical charges.

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.

He was an accomplished bobsledder, swimmer and jai alai player — a superb athlete.

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.

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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.