Skip Myslenski

News flash! No. 1 Arkansas goes through week undefeated! Retains top spot! Razorbacks first team in six weeks to achieve this feat. Succeed where North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA, Duke and...

One of sports hoariest totems goes like this. A team's personality reflects its coach's. Need proof? Only Georgia Tech need be called to the witness stand. The Yellow Jackets are...

Back a few weeks ago, when North Carolina appeared as if it were struggling, this coach (whose identity must remain anonymous to protect him from a feud) chuckled at the...

This is too good to ignore: SMU has an official brick as a sponsor (Acme, if you must know), which makes it only appropriate that the Mustangs are last in...

What happened on this Scribbler's soaps. Or: This was the week that was . . . No. 2 North Carolina lost to unranked Virginia. No. 3 Kansas lost to unranked...

In this season of emotion, in this time between Hawaii tournaments, in this lull between the preseason and the conference season, a lesson in objectivity. Or, to be blunt, a...

Coaches value an NCAA Tournament bid just slightly less than a 7-foot center who can run, jump, shoot, rebound, make his grades and guarantee a fat shoe contract. And that...

The Mid-Continent Conference, which already houses Illinois-Chicago and Northern Illinois, is expected to invite Loyola to join its ranks within a week. A second school also is expected to receive...

Michael Jordan, on this occasion, was viewed only briefly, yet the look he wore will forever remain embedded in the brain. Jordan was on a bus in Barcelona, behind tinted...

Rex Walters is scheduled to perform. He is the shooting guard who played two seasons for Northwestern, starred last year for Kansas and is now looked to by the New...