Skip Myslenski

Emptying a pile of cluttered notebooks before the new year dawns . . . - He is as well known for his courtside contortions as he is for his coaching...

The evidence is there in the North Carolina press guide, in that section that introduces its players. First come the seniors. Each has two pages filled with his pictures and...

He, most certainly, has been changed by it all. Not in public, where his shoulders remain unbowed, nor at work in some overheated gym, where he still stalks the sidelines...

He moves about on legs that resemble telephone poles and that support a torso so tough it could be used as the wall in a game of racquetball. He rebounds...

He has dared always to envision himself soaring to the stars. Back in El Paso, Texas, where he grew up, he did this on the playground and while defeating Oscar...

A day of infamy: Ol` Murph, that legendary barkeep who authored the theory about everything going wrong that can go wrong, was nothing but a blithering optimist. At least that`s...

He cannot remember the last time his team, traditionally powerful Louisville, was not favored to win the Metro Conference title. That is the case this season, however. He, on the...

Quick hits from Bob Knight while awaiting Saturday`s Big Four Classic in Indianapolis, where his Hoosiers meet Louisville and Notre Dame meets Kentucky. . . . - Surname not included:...

This was five years ago, and Les Robinson, the new North Carolina State head basketball coach, was finishing up his 11th season at the Citadel. He had arrived there in...

They were, a mere 12 months ago, the cover boys of college basketball. They stared out from the magazine racks right there alongside Di and the Kennedy of the moment,...