It was Canadian physician, physical education teacher and sports coach Dr. James Naismith. At the age of 30 in 1891, Naismith thought up the now-famous sport in an attempt to keep a particularly ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was invented by one man, on this day 124 years ago. Dr James Naismith was a Canadian PE instructor who was working at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.