Skip Myslenski

The ways of international basketball can be strange, a fact the youthful U.S. team learned quickly Monday in its Goodwill Games opener with Puerto Rico. It learned it, in fact,...

This was back before Darryl Dawkins founded the planet of Lovetron, back before he shattered any backboards and contrived an image that was always more impressive than his performances. This...

''But, boss, the season ended 10 days ago.'' ''I know that. But look at all that has happened since then.'' ''You mean the Blackhawks beginning their quest for the lord`s...

They may seem in stark contrast, the Duke and Nevada-Las Vegas teams that play Monday for the national championship, but in fact they are both old-fashioned throwbacks. They are throwbacks...

Already, there is a Michigan State rule in the books. It allows officials to use television to correct a scorer`s or timekeeper`s mistake, and was written in after the Spartans`...

If we were a normal team, all this would bother us. But we`re not normal. Cleve (for Cleveland) Edwards, a Nevada-Las Vegas assistant, said that back in January, when the...

Not all the good die young, and other bits of flotsam as college basketball`s long-and-winding road finally reaches Denver . . . - Your name is Kenny Anderson, and you...

The play is the thing, to quote Paul Westhead's favorite author. And the inspired play of his Loyola Marymount Lions, who entered the NCAA tourney on the emotional wave of...

This one, this West Regional final between Loyola Marymount and Nevada-Las Vegas, has Morality Play written all over it. Saints and sinners, Catholics and convicts, white hats and black hats-those...

Their words now, in the wake of one tragic death and two impressive victories, are tinged with palpable emotion and a near-mystical hue. Guard Jeff Fryer, who nailed 11 three-pointers...