If you're a diehard NBA fan, you're getting ready to settle into a long, cold winter of discontent. But don't despair: College hoops is here to keep you warm. The game looks the same, sounds the same, seems the same -- yet it's a little different, isn't it?
The first 13 rules of basketball sold Friday for more than $4 million, setting a record for the highest sales price for sports memorabilia, according to Sotheby's, which conducted the auction.
The first rules of basketball are being auctioned by the family of the game's inventor. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
One of the most expensive sports-related documents, Dr. James Naismith's "Founding Rules of Basketball," will be up for auction Friday in New York.
I've been to Allen Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Kansas a half dozen times. I've seen about that many games there and none was particularly notable. But every time I've been to the arena -- the focal point of the south sector of the main campus -- it's been a special experience; the venue where I've most keenly felt an organic link to the sporting past.
Do you find skateboarding boring? Has spinning spun out? Does the thought of Pilates fill you with ennui?
Don't even try to steer," the instructor tells us with a straight face. "On your first few runs, you'll only make things worse." I'm sitting with about 30 other people in the track operations build...
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