Naismith Artifacts Draw Nearly $300K: A detailed account of the first basketball game played in December 1891 sold for $71,700 Friday in the first of two auctions of historical items belonging to the sport’s founder, James Naismith. “The eight-page manuscript describing the events of the first game in Springfield, Mass., is the most significant basketball document ever to reach the auction block,” said Chris Ivy, conductor of the auction. Thirty-three items, including a typed copy of the original rules of basketball and a vintage 1890s photograph of the first basketball court at Springfield College, sold for $293,972. Nearly 300 more items from Naismith’s collection will part of a second auction Dec. 15. [12/10/06]
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Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach