Skip Myslenski

''I want my youngsters to see Chicago; there are a lot of things they can see that are educational in themselves,'' Larry Finch says. ''By the same token, I want...

Norm Stewart had a question. This was last February, and the Missouri coach was lying in a hospital bed recuperating from the effects of eight ulcers (seven in the stomach,...

Jerry Tarkanian wants to know if you have a car. Yes, you tell him. ''Can we drive over to see the football stadium?'' he asks. He is in Norman, the...

The Big 10 has invited Penn State to join its conference. Conversations between the school and the league have been going on for much of this decade, and a decision...

Lettin` fly for three, and wondering if it really is absolutely necessary for players to emotionally high-five after doing something as simple as making a foul shot. . . ....

Cliches are both the bane and the backbone of the sporting world, and they are often dismissed as nothing more than meaningless twaddle. But it is good to remember one...

NEWS ITEM: Providence College Athletic Director Dave Gavitt announces the formation of a new conference comprising seven traditional basketball powers in the East. Some refer to it as the ''Super...

So here is Rick Pitino, late of the New York Knicks, now of the Kentucky Wildcats, and he is up on this stage in front of open notebooks and whirring...

Names, notes and views as college basketball sets off in earnest on the Road to Denver and the Final Four . . . - Phil Henderson: Out of Crete-Monee High,...

A conversation with the Master ''Every year a team takes a different route to whatever it`s going to wind up becoming or doing,'' Bob Knight says. He is the Indiana...