Skip Myslenski

It has beaten two teams from the mighty Big Ten (Michigan, Ohio State) and another two from the haughty Atlantic Coast Conference (Virginia Tech, Florida State). It has won a...

My favorite stories I'm a sucker for implausible sagas that spit in the eye of reality and stir the imagination. One school that did that was Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, which...

They are younger than this winter and still face a learning curve as steep as a mountain climb in the Tour de France. They look not old enough to need...

Louisville started a walk-on Saturday. Once considered among the elite in the Big East, once touted as a trendy pick to reach the Final Four, the Cardinals are so battered...

The portrait Wisconsin presents is now as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. It creates precise patterns while running the swing offense, which demands crisp passing, solid screening and judicious shot...

"Speed kills" was the warning back in the days of love beads and sit-ins and tie-dyed T-shirts. Yet, when properly applied, speed can do something very different. It can emerge...

In a move that was no real surprise, Northwestern said Monday that Greg Colby would not return as its defensive coordinator. Colby, 55, a 1975 graduate of Illinois and former...

It was a Saturday unlike any ever seen in this southern Illinois town. In the afternoon, at Southern Illinois' McAndrew Stadium, the Salukis topped Massachusetts in the quarterfinals of the...

It was a Saturday unlike any seen before in this town. In the afternoon at Southern Illinois' McAndrew Stadium, the Salukis topped Massachusetts in the quarterfinals of the Football Championship...

The snapshots seemed pulled from an ancient album. There was a shut-down defense able to neutralize the opponent's most explosive threats. There was a band of marauding rebounders attacking the...