1. She crossed backwards, blindfolded, wearing peach baskets on her feet. 2. But football traditions were evolving even as James Naismith was tinkering with his peach baskets and his rules. 3. Dean Smith, the coach whose basketball lineage traces from James Naismith and the first peach basket, formally ended an era Thursday. 4. Football was still trying to get its rules in shape and basketball had barely graduated from the peach basket. 5. The lockout sent those relatively mundane plans the way of the peach basket months ago. 6. The story goes that he devised a game involving throwing a soccer ball into peach baskets hung from balconies at each end of the gym. 7. The scheme has been around since the game was played with peach baskets, but the Wildcats responded as if seeing it for the first time. 8. When the deer started to eat the bait, the hunter would pull a string, trapping the deer under the peach basket. 9. The peach basket. |