Contributed by Andrea Bossenmeyer

I played basketball from the time I was 5 until 15, when a debilitating knee surgery took me out of the game. Figuratively and literally. With 10 years of practice, I wasn't anywhere near as talented as this talented boy.



Jordan McCabe reminds me of one of my personal heros whom I was lucky enough to see multiple times because we lived in the same city. Sandy "Spin" Slade. Sandy has moved on from pe…
I just finished reading a blog entitled, "Don't know much about history" written by Joanne Jacobs. She is also the author of a book called, Our School.

In honor of Joanne's blog, I'll write about the history of basketball. Do you think that's what she had in mind?

Basketball was invented in 1891 by physical education teacher James Naismith at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. The assignment "to in…