Tension, excitement, glamour and big bucks: basketball's popularity is soaring around the world, with 3.3 billion people ...

And America was the ideal place for basketball to be invented, transformed and then ripple out around the world. It was a collaborative effort between these three countries, and not solely down to ...

The history of basketball is being retold following research from a Stirling University academic. The inventor of basketball ...

“In day-to-day life, Naismith spoke in Scottish mannerisms, had a Scottish accent, used the broad Scots dialect, engaged with ...

But now new research is suggesting that the accepted North American origins of Basketball may not be as yankee-doodle-dandy as first thought. A fresh look at the inventor of the game – long ...

The inventor of basketball was actually Scottish, not Canadian, according to new research from the University of Stirling.

Naismith enlisted with The Fifth Regiment: Royal Scots of Canada Highlanders, becoming a Captain (Image: University of ...

New research has revealed that the creator of basketball was Scottish. Physical education teacher Dr James Naismith, the son ...

It may be surprising to discover that women began playing basketball less than a year after the game was invented. The fact is that women’s basketball is steeped in tradition, some of it ...