When the NCAA decided to switch from leather to synthetic-leather basketballs in its Division I championship tournaments, officials said they were just trying to please teams, not cows. But after the ...

NEW YORK -- Wooden rackets are long gone from tennis, and kids who play baseball grow up hearing the clang of metal rather than the crack of wooden bats. So it's no great shock to learn this week that ...

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 ...

The NBA will return to using leather basketballs, scrapping the new microfiber composite ball introduced this season. Many players have complained about the new ball, saying it was too slippery caused ...