As he does every year after Selection Sunday in March, he placed copies of his NCAA bracket picks on the graves of James Naismith and Phog Allen. Naismith, the inventor of basketball and KU’s ...

Michael Zogry, KU associate professor in the department of religious studies, who discovered the only known audio recording of James Naismith, talks about some of the many items in his Naismith ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass (WWLP) – Children from local organizations ... December 21st, 1891, Dr. James Naismith first introduced the game of basketball to his students at the YMCA International ...

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 ...

Basketball was introduced by Naismith on December 21 ... In the UK, it is the second most played team sport after football for children between the ages of 11 and 15. Today, America is known ...