Skip Myslenski

P.J. Carlesimo called his players together. This was last March, and his Seton Hall team that had spent the season ranked in the Top 15 was getting ready to hold...

He has been portrayed as a visionary and a charlatan, as a moralist and a rank fraud, as a hurricane full of fresh air and an airhead just full of...

The Long March stopped first in Kansas City, where the Big Eight basketball coaches were gathered, and then pushed onto Atlanta, where their Southeastern Conference brethren were in session. Next...

Disband the Big 10. Eliminate the Big East. Disassemble the Atlantic Coast. In fact, while we`re at it, let`s go ahead and eradicate all the WACs and MACs and conferences...

Curtis Price, his injured right wrist wrapped in a cast, is sitting in the stands of De Paul`s Alumni Hall. His sophomore season as a Blue Demon is now in...

So much for the vaunted frigid conditions of Candlestick Park. Saturday`s 5-4 San Francisco victory game began with 74-degree temperatures and a high, sunny sky. The flags beyond the fence...

It is 3:12 on Sunday afternoon, and at Soldier Field, Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason is screaming signals over the din of howling Bear fans. There is a din, too, at...

B.J. Armstrong is not much thicker than a vertical hyphen, and at rest he often wears the cherubic smile of the innocent. ''But,'' Indiana coach Bob Knight once asked, ''who...

By the time he reached Seoul for last summer`s Olympics, Ben Johnson was dog-paddling in a cesspool of steroids. He was accompanied by his coach, Charlie Francis, and his physician,...

Pistons guard Joe Dumars spent the Eastern Conference finals trying to shadow Michael Jordan. Now in the championship series, he`s attempting to do the same to the Lakers` Magic Johnson....