Skip Myslenski

Illinois received its news from the NCAA`s Committee on Infractions on Wednesday morning. Now, on Thursday morning, it is Missouri`s turn. Its basketball program has been under scrutiny since February...

It was Halloween night in 1988 when Kansas, then the defending national champion, got hit with three-years` probation by the NCAA. The Jayhawks would not be able to defend their...

Hold those banners. Stop those presses printing up the stationery. Don`t bet start drawing up the rivalries in that new Midwest basketball conference fashioned after the hugely successful Big East....

Jerry Fontenot traipsed to breakfast on Sunday morning thinking he was about to face another Sunday afternoon on the Bear sideline. But there, as he ate, he was approached by...

His face adorns billboards now, and when he trains, it is not in some smoky gym but in the gilt-edged splendor of a ballroom in a fancy Las Vegas hotel....

The line, the observation, is now a staple in the routine of Chuck Daly, the 60-year-old coach of the world-champion Pistons. He uses it constantly, at the opening of a...

March Madness is the familiar term, the term raised each spring to embrace all the wondrous wackiness and crazed convulsions that then characterize college basketball. But here it is October-four...

This should be a most pleasant off-season for Jerry Tarkanian. He should be relishing the national championship his Nevada-Las Vegas Rebels so impressively won last spring, and enjoying the security...

There is, first of all, this memory. It is the memory of sitting with former Sox General Manager Roland Hemond, and listening to him explain how-just that day-his bad mood...

De Paul in the Big East? ''Obviously, it`s a very attractive conference for anyone in Division I basketball,'' says Blue Demons Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw. ''That kind of league would...