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 ...

With the University of Kansas working to complete the DeBruce Center, a project that will (among many things) house Dr. James Naismith’s original “Rules of Basket Ball,” a statue of the founder of the ...

The original rules of basketball, typewritten on two pages by a gym teacher named James Naismith in 1891, were going up for sale. Swade, a 1993 BV North grad who grew up going to games at Allen ...

James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near ...

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. A 1939 tape of Naismith talking about the game has been found — it may be the only recording of his voice. The tape is from the WOR-AM archives.