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December 22, 2005
Last minute shopping ideas for the person who has everything:: James Naismith's family is planning to sell the original Rules of Basketball for $10 million. The profits will go to a youth charity. Reading the original thirteen rules (listed in the article) shows that the game may have changed just a bit since 1891.
posted by Ufez Jones to basketball at 10:52 AM - 13 comments
Yeah, it actually reads like a pretty boring game*. I really like the beginning of number ten, though: "The umpire shall be judge of the men" Such power! *not dissing ultimate
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:07 AM on December 22, 2005
They forgot one: 14. There shall never be a national league, ever, for womens basketball, and under no circumstances, shall a womens basketball game be showed to national audiences-its too embarrising for the fans, players, and the game.
posted by steelcityguy at 12:56 PM on December 22, 2005
huh?
posted by chicobangs at 01:06 PM on December 22, 2005
What? Some one picking on the WNBA? Well, I never...
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 01:27 PM on December 22, 2005
shall a womens basketball game be showed to national audiences cograts steelcity, your gramatical skills have matched your analytic at the third-grade level.
posted by Bill Lumbergh at 02:38 PM on December 22, 2005
15. No person shall be allowed to post any thoughts, opinions, or other such utterances on an internet board of any kind, until such time as that person learns how to spell and use grammar above the third grade level. As you so eloquently put it: its too embarrising
posted by The_Black_Hand at 04:33 PM on December 22, 2005
16. Nobody better be dissing Ultimate. That's pretty cool, though.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 05:06 PM on December 22, 2005
steelcityguy, like most people who drop idiotic ill-informed turds like that into these conversations, won't think to come back into this thread. Why would he? But seriously, dribbling is one of the fundamental building blocks of the sport. It's part of the definition of the game. I'm trying to imagine what it would look like, keeping the ball off the floor, peach baskets just above head level... I wonder if there are any Oldest-Of-The-Old-School tournaments or something similar.
posted by chicobangs at 06:03 PM on December 22, 2005
chicobangs: Watch netball.
posted by rodgerd at 11:33 PM on December 22, 2005
What to get for the person who has everything? A course of broad spectrum antibiotics. Peace, everyone.
posted by owlhouse at 03:56 AM on December 23, 2005
16. Nobody better be dissing Ultimate. I swear I wasn't! Some of my best friends in college were huge ultimate fans. It's just that me and my lungs prefer disc golf. That's all.
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posted by lailasultan at 04:59 PM on December 28, 2005
I figured the rules would be different, but -- I don't see any provision for dribbling. It reads like Ultimate, except with a ball instead of a frisbee.