GASTONIA - When Duke University begins its 111th season of basketball on Friday night in the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic, the Blue Devils will be the No. 1 team in the country and a ...

During the 1940s, downtown Hammond was the place to go — whether it was to shop, see a show, or grab a bite to eat. On March 31, 1940, the usual weekend crowd increased from a few hundred to tens of ...

Willie "Woo Woo" Wong, a man of small stature but large athletic talent who went on to become one of San Francisco's biggest basketball names in the 1940s and among the finest Chinese American players ...

One of the nation's most successful sporting events began as a financial flop. Hastily planned and poorly promoted, the inaugural NCAA tournament in 1939 was such an afterthought that many teams that ...

If you are not that familiar with the Spartans' basketball history, let me tell you. If you are a historian of Michigan State University basketball, you probably know who wore No. 7 during the 1941-42 ...

In the early afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 9 — as I was just roused from a late-night slumber, still processing the thrilling triple-overtime game at Lavietes Pavilion the night before — I received a ...

The College of William and Mary announced Monday night that Chet Giermak, who until a few weeks ago was the Tribe’s all-time leading scorer in men’s basketball, has died. He was 87. Giermak died from ...

Ed Macauley, 83, one of the first big stars of the National Basketball Association, who won a championship with the St. Louis Hawks and was traded by the Boston Celtics for Bill Russell, died Nov. 8 ...

There was a time when there was one baseball game a week on national television. Aptly called the Game of the Week, it was a chance for fans across the country to see some of the top players in Major ...