Jan
20
Celebrating this historic day of firsts – the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States and the celebration of the first official basketball game every played in 1892 – here are some great reads.
On SI.com, Alexander Wolff details how basketball shaped Obama.
And straight from the Hoops 4 the Soul archives, here’s a post celebrating another historic figure’s life, this one of the inventor of the game of basketball, Dr. James Naismith.
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