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 inventor of basketball is being reclaimed as Scottish given his family roots, his dedication to the country’s culture - ...

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

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his ...

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

Basketball is one of the most popular sports worldwide, so its Canadian roots often come as a surprise for fans of the game. Origins of the infamous sport trace back to 1891, when Canadian Dr. James ...

A BYU men's basketball player apparently is the great-grandson of the inventor of tater tots, per an ESPN broadcast.

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