It might be the most stunning ball reversal in hoops history. Not even three months into the life of its controversial synthetic basketball, NBA commissioner David Stern moved Monday to hush scores of ...

The noise on the ground floor of the Horween Leather Co. is a deep, constant rumble pierced by the shrieks of blades inside machines that have split leather to within fractions of an inch for more ...

Getting the all-leather NBA basketball into the hoop is the entire point of the game, so coming up with exacting standards for the ball itself is nothing short of a science for Chicago-based Wilson ...

Many of the most popular sports played around the world have at least one characteristic in common: They involve throwing, hitting or kicking a ball. Now, reports Joshua Rapp Learn for Inside Science, ...

As the NBA pre-season begins, the league is instituting some rule changes. The changes are aimed at stemming player complaints about referees' calls. Michele Norris talks with Wall Street Journal ...

The NBA will go back to leather basketballs in the New Year. The league announced Monday that its experiment with micro-fiber composite balls had failed. The decision follows a steady stream of ...

In March, for the first time in the 64-year history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, the ball used in games will not be made of leather. The NCAA has decided to switch to a synthetic ball for ...

The first ball games in Eurasia may have been played 3000 years ago, according to a new analysis of three leather balls unearthed in an ancient cemetery in northern China. One of the men buried with a ...