According to Katz and McLendon’s hall of fame bio he was the first African-American ... where he was mentored by James Naismith. McLendon went on to coach basketball at the high school, college ...

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 ...

Jansen, who wrote the afterword for the biography “The Basketball Man: James Naismith,” by Bernice Larson Webb, said more people should view Naismith as former KU men’s basketball coach Roy ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will honor Philadelphia 76ers superfan and Campus Apartments Chairman Alan ...

Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to Induct Spike Lee and More Superfans into James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery ...

On Friday (Oct. 4), it was announced that the famed New York Knicks fan will be enshrined into the hall alongside actor Billy ...

A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. Unable to accept the defeat of the secessionist cause, Jesse trained ...

In 2006, James went on an impressive run with several top ten finishes including a second-place finish in the $10,000 Party Poker Million V cruise. Although James does not have a major title ...

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including ...

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame will add Jack Nicholson to their James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery this fall.

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced the addition of four new SuperFans to its James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery.