So, as I watched the last 90 seconds of Mississippi State’s overtime victory over Ole Miss last Saturday night at Starkville, ...

One might expect a steady stream of basketball fans to pass the grave of the game’s inventor: Dr. James Naismith. Not so. “Since I have been working here, there has been nobody to come here ...

December 21st, 1891, Dr. James Naismith first introduced the game of basketball to his students at the YMCA International Training Academy in Springfield, and from that point forward basketball ...

Since its birth in a dusty American sports hall 110 years ago, the modern game of basketball has spread all over the globe. From the day Dr James Naismith's eager students first slammed balls into ...

Basketball, however, isn't one of those sports. It was invented by one man, on this day 124 years ago. Dr James Naismith was a Canadian PE instructor who was working at the International YMCA ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...

Basketball was played for the first time on December 21, 1891 at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, after Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical education ...