When James Naismith invented basketball, it was essentially to be a safer alternative than football. Fast forward a ...

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Following their loss at No. 1 Kansas, UNC's RJ Davis, Seth Trimble and Jae'Lyn Withers described what the Tar Heels learned ...

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Quibble all you want with his record or lack of championships, but you wouldn’t be reading this without Dr. James Naismith.

What looked for a while to be a dud of a game amid much-deserved fanfare turned into a classic meeting between UNC and Kansas ...

He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1925, one of the spectators at the fairgrounds for the state finals was none other than James Naismith, the inventor of ...

Also on this date: In 1861, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. In 1888, Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over ...

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