It’s a Wednesday night... game night for Ysabel Bilbao. She’s part of a women’s league that plays the Basque racket sport of pelota. "As we go downstairs, this is what I describe as the fight club ...

Tradition and culture drew the local Basque community Saturday for the 80th annual Kern County Basque Festival. In between food and drinks there were demonstrations of the game pelota, along with a ...

For much of the 20th century, the sport of jai alai was a big deal — not just in Basque Country, where it originated, but around the world. In the '60s, it was marketed to Americans as the next big ...