Jai alai Jai alai Jai alai (; Basque: ) is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held device (cesta). It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing area) where the sport is played. The game is called "zesta-punta" (basket tip) in Basque. The Basque Government promotes "jai alai" as "the fastest sport in the world" because of the speed of the ball. The sport once held the world record for ball speed
Alai (author) presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). "Red Poppies" was selected as a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize in 2002 and won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2005. In 2013, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. Alai (author) Alai (; ; born 1959 in Sichuan province) is a Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descendent. He was also editor of "Science Fiction World". Alai's notable novel "Red Poppies" ("The Dust Settles - Chen'ai Luoding"), published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains,