Skip Myslenski

Back at the beginning of time, before this certifiably crazy college basketball season opened, they were cover boys, and their team was the No. 1 choice of many. There was...

Why did you take the job? Perry Clark is asked. He is Tulane`s first-year basketball coach, and here he laughs loudly and says, ''Momentary insanity.'' Then he leans forward in...

They are the Picassos of pessimism, the Dalis of doom. They are the Michaelangelos of moaning, the Warhols of whining. They are the Wyeths of worry, the Rembrandts of ruin....

Every life is an endless series of snapshots. Here are some from the scrapbook of Minnesota basketball coach Clem Haskins, whose 22nd-ranked Gophers play host to Northwestern Thursday night ....

Oh, there were just so many possibilities at last week`s annual NCAA convention. No, silly, not those possibilities for reform, or cleaning up the mess in college sports or making...

The subject was conference realignment and the current status of Syracuse, Pitt and Boston College. Though those three play basketball as members of the Big East, they are independent in...

Funny what you can find paging through press guides. Or: College basketball from A to Z. . . . A for Anderson: Georgia Tech freshman guard Kenny Anderson is the...

Nothing is going to happen tomorrow. But, concurrently, nothing is now impossible. ''That`s right,'' agrees a well-connected conference commissioner. ''The Big 10 and Penn State caught everyone`s attention. We`ve been...

Your name is David Berst, and you are the head of the NCAA`s enforcement division. That makes you the Supercop of college sports, and those who work for you, the...

Sortin` through the preseason rubble, and lookin` ahead to the real thing. . . . Directional Games, that is what they familiarly are called, and they litter college basketball`s December...