A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Basketball Knockout, here is a piece of the bigger picture. The earliest basketball games used peach baskets, and Naismith wrote 13 original rules for the new indoor sport. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.