During the first basketball game played in 1891, players dunked balls and scored points in a basket normally used to collect peaches. To keep his students engaged, James Naismith, a 31-year-old ...

Tension, excitement, glamour and big bucks: basketball’s popularity is soaring around the world, with 3.3 billion people interested in the game, according to one study. Strongly associated with North ...

Long winning streaks have always served as one of the clearest indicators of sustained excellence in women’s college basketball. Since the NCAA began sponsoring the sport in 1981-82, only a small ...

ALL RIGHT. CELEBRATING THE PLAYERS, TEAMS AND THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S BASKETBALL. THAT’S THE TOPIC OF COURT QUEENS, A COFFEE TABLE BOOK CO-WRITTEN BY SACRAMENTO NATIVE THE PRIDE OF RIVER CITY HIGH ...