Skip Myslenski

The hurricane howled through Long Beach last week on emotional overdrive, its very human parts driven, inspired, enhanced by the memory of their teammate`s recent death. On Friday, in their...

Fallout from the Weekend of the Lost Seeds . . . Loyola Marymount coach Paul Westhead, who with his team is now the collective Kid of the Moment, always has...

The three ladies, all elderly, approached John Thompson on Tuesday night. The Georgetown coach and his Hoyas were about to leave Washington for Indianapolis, where Friday they face Texas Southern...

A year ago, on that Wednesday before the Thursday that began it all, the choice was obvious. It was Georgetown, which had just blitzed through the Big East tournament with...

Fallout, follow-ups and a fact or three emerging from Sunday, Whacky Sunday . . . - De Paul is feeling demon blue, and at Southern Illinois, the Salukis are-well-foaming at...

The Notorious Nine arrived in Kansas City on Thursday, and at 7:30 in the evening they gathered for an informal dinner. At its finish they rode the elevator to their...

Oklahoma`s Billy Tubbs, who rarely has met an opinion he hasn`t uttered, has this to say about all those conference tournaments now mottling the landscape: ''I don`t see any need...

The regular season (the Big 10 excepted) is a fading memory, replaced now with conference tourneys and arguments over just who belongs in the NCAA`s Big Dance. But before it...

Billy Tubbs` eyes sparkle, and his face wears that mischievous leer, that Jack Nicholson leer, that says isn`t it fun putting one over on the world. Preseason predictions, that is...

It could have been worse. This was back on Jan. 2 and Connecticut had just lost at St. John`s by 31, and as the Huskies dragged themselves off the Alumni...