Now, basketball is one of the most-recognized games on the planet. Its stars are larger-than-life and command major media attention no matter where they go. However, it wasn't always this way. There ...

TOPEKA, Kan. – The inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, who was also the University of Kansas first men’s basketball coach, will be one of five Laureates inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame ...

A document signed by Dr. James Naismith, the Springfield man who created basketball, recently sold for $17,840 at RR Auction in Boston. The 1895 document is a “blank form” biographical questionnaire ...

Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball and Kansas’ first men’s basketball coach, was one of eight named to the 24th Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Hall of Fame Class of 2021, the ...

Herkimer, N.Y. – Anyone with a passing interest in basketball knows James Naismith invented the game. They might have heard the quaint origin story of soccer balls and peach baskets, how Naismith ...

A new billboard proclaims a village in Upstate New York is the real birthplace of basketball. Dr. James Naismith has long been credited as inventing the game of basketball in December 1891 at a YMCA ...

NC State women's basketball stars Aziaha James and Saniya Rivers are not only viewed as two of the best guards in the ACC, but the entire country. RALEIGH, N.C. -- NC State women's basketball stars ...