It was the same nip-and-tuck contest in the main game ... of not only being Asia’s first play-for-pay hoop action, but also as the second-oldest professional basketball league in the world ...

Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is zpiatt@news-gazette.com.

Basketball great LeBron James has become the first professional male athlete to have his likeness depicted in a Ken doll. Mattel Inc. unveiled the LeBron Ken doll on Wednesday to kick off the toy ...

Jordan "Turbo" Smith recently completed his first professional basketball season overseas in Georgia, playing for Team Free UNI.

1924 — Frank Carauna, of Buffalo, N.Y., becomes the first to bowl two straight perfect 300 games. Carauna throws five strikes to open his third game, giving him 29 straight strikes. 1931 — WGL ...