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William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
Morgan William (born July 14, 1996) [1] is an American women's college basketball player who previously played for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.She helped lead the Bulldogs to four appearances in the NCAA tournament, including three Sweet Sixteens, and two appearances in the championship game, 2017 and 2018.
For a person to be inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor, they must have made "significant contributions to the game of basketball". [3] Of the inaugural Hall of Fame class of 1959, seven individuals were inducted as contributors, including James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.
The 2024–25 Towson Tigers men's basketball team represents Towson University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Tigers, led by 14th-year head coach Pat Skerry , play their home games at TU Arena in Towson, Maryland as members of the Coastal Athletic Association .
The Springfield College Women's Basketball team of 2004–2005, made the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III basketball tournament. Springfield earned its second-ever at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament in February 2024 and made its eighth appearance in the national tournament to cap off the 2023-24 season.
The 2024–25 William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team represents the College of William & Mary during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Tribe, led by first-year head coach Brian Earl, play their home games at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Virginia as members of the Coastal Athletic Association.
One of Daytop’s founders, a Roman Catholic priest named William O’Brien, thought of addicts as needy infants — another sentiment borrowed from Synanon. “You don’t have a drug problem, you have a B-A-B-Y problem,” he explained in Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use In America, 1923-1965, published in 1989. “You ...
The Continental Basketball Association was founded on April 23, 1946, under its previous name, the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League. [2] It went on to bill itself as the "World's Oldest Professional Basketball League", since its founding pre-dated the founding of the National Basketball Association by two months.