Before I became the basketball coach at the University of Kansas in 1988, my knowledge of James Naismith was ... stable/j.ctt14btb6m.8 As Naismith arrived at his office the next morning, he picked up ...

The young men in James Naismith’s class were restless until ... so as not to encourage “roughness.” With a soccer ball and two peach baskets he borrowed from the gym’s building manager ...

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 ...