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Do you like Jai Alai?  This Saturday, we’ll stream the final...

Cesta Punta "el juego más rápido y espectacular del mundo"
This article was translated by John R. Bopp This Saturday, December 17, starting at 5:00pm*, at the Jai Alai court at the University of Markina-Xemein, the Xistera...

Observing the decline(?) of Basque handball from Ireland

Children play at Kurene pelota club in Sopela. Photograph- Guy Hedgecoe
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Irish daily Irish Times has published an article today penned by Guy Hedgecoe, their correspondent for the...

The Havana Jai Alai, the Tree of Guernica, and Cuban Independence...

Calle Belascoain de La Habana. Del documental "Belascoain" primera entrega de la serie Siete Calles de la Habana de Angel Gonzalez Katarain
This article was translated by John R. Bopp There are times we find a loose thread in an article, and when we pull on it a...

The Havana Wedding of a Friend of Hemingway’s, Officiated by the...

They say an amazing story is just the antechamber to an even more amazing story.  The other day, we posted one of those entries...

Extraordinary Basque Friends: From Cantinflas’ Pelotaria to Hemingway’s Abertzale Priest

We recently received this photo from a friend in the Vascos en México group (a must-read website for all those interested in Basques in general...

The old “French Town” in Los Angeles should have been called...

Parte del Barrio Francés (Barrio Vasco) de Los Ángeles en 1900
KCET, a public television station in California, and one of the most important in the US, has published a really interesting report on their...