"I wanted to create a basketball training aid that would provide an effective means of increasing strength in your shooting ...

PARIS — If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The U.S. has a ways to go before it becomes a 3x3 powerhouse. American men were ...

PITTSBURGH, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a piece of sporting equipment to help improve the quality of a basketball player's skills," said an inventor, from Burleson, Texas, "so I ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball’s urban myths, one of New York’s five boroughs is actually the birthplace of filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket? Before ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a basketball coach, I wanted to create a basketball training aid that would encourage a player to spread his/her fingers, follow through a shot from the ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier? By Dan Barry A ...

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