Sentences with phrase «jai alai»

«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.

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.

Why, we even have a postdoc now who plays semiprofessional jai alai!»

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.

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

And jai alai is much faster.

Cuban jai alai is even more fascinating.

No sport demands more of a competitor in skill, liming, position play and stamina than jai alai.

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.

One difficulty with jai alai is that too many politicians who are at best overly idealistic and at worst crooked have been overseeing the game, and proper regulation of the game is almost unknown.

• Until recent months, the state of Florida, where betting at frontons has been legal for 44 years, boasted that jai alai was the cleanest pari - mutuel operation in the country.

Using the standard spiel of proponents of legalized betting on jai alai and other sports, Senator Friedland renewed the call for building frontons in Jersey by claiming that the revenues the state would derive from the pari - mutuel betting would «be dedicated to helping the elderly and the medically and physically handicapped.»

Florida, it seems, is now ready to give jai alai that hard look it hasn't had in 40 years.

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.

The arrests ordered by Connecticut authorities are likely to be merely the first of a number that will send shock waves through Florida, Rhode Island and Nevada, where betting on jai alai is also legal, and perhaps put a fatal crimp in the sport's plans to invade Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland and about a dozen other states and two Canadian provinces.

Recently, New Jersey State Senator David Friedland introduced a bill calling for the establishment of frontons in Jersey City, Camden and Long Branch, even though last year New Jersey voters turned down jai alai in a referendum.

To understand how the Miami Syndicate cleaned up by betting trifectas in Connecticut, it's necessary to know how jai alai is played and bet.

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.

What about collegiate jai alai matches?

Not exact matches

It's like betting on jai - alai.

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.

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.

Hotel Villa Engracia facilities include five meeting rooms and different outside spaces (the hotel has 10 hectares of land in the heart of the Poblet Mountains), a function room inside the beautiful former church, an excellent restaurant, a 25 - metre outside swimming pool (not heated), a multiple sport court (jai - alai, mini football, basketball), tennis court, pétanque court, children's playground, table games room, table tennis and billiards.