Basketball history

The jump ball at a basketball game held during the 1957-58 season. The game was played in the old Bolivar High School gym. Look closely and you will see fans sitting on the Bolivar stage.

Explore the standard sizes for every level of basketball, from high school all the way up through international competition.

The most successful women's basketball team in US history won 131 games over the space of five years, but today the Flying Queens are forgotten. A new documentary aims to change that.

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Syracuse.com's college basketball beat writer Mike Waters answers readers' questions.

North America's favourite sports all have Canadian roots - CBC Sports Longform

Since ancient Greece, people have looked forward to the Olympics. It’s that one time every four years where you get to see all kinds of different people compete in sports you didn’t even know existed. And every four years, it’s a huge source of entertainment and powerful images. The joy of a gold medalist winner

The first game used baskets as hoops and turned into a brawl. Soon after, basketball evolved into a pillar of American sports.

McGill graduate Dr. James Naismith introduced his invention, the game of basketball, on December 21, 1891. Basketball, a game that started with 18 men at the School for Christian Workers (later the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College) in Springfield, Mass., has grown into a game that more than 300 million people play worldwide. The man who created this instantly successful sport was Naismith, an inaugural inductee to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. Dr. Luther…