I HAVE A GRIPE WITH THE WAY PEOPLE SPELL “BY” AND “BYE”             I have a gripe with the way “bye” has been shoved aside by the word “by”.  I think of “by” as pertaining to means or method, as in “We’ll go by car,” and “By any means”, while I think of “bye” as…

THE INVENTION OF BASKETBALL             In 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts at a YMCA school a young physical education teacher named James Naismith found himself frustrated during the winter months because there was no game to play with his students indoors. He spent a lot of time speculating about how to overcome this deficiency but all…