Skip Myslenski

Michigan`s Treasury Department has got some of the hottest tickets around-seats at the NBA Finals-and will sell them to the highest bidder. The tickets-four for Game 2 Thursday and four...

Laker guard Byron Scott, who partially tore his left hamstring in his team`s Monday practice, missed the National Basketball Association Finals` opener on Tuesday and is definitely out for Thursday`s...

The statement is not found until the fifth page of the NCAA`s report on the Kentucky basketball program. But it hits with the bald force of that legendary punch known...

This was Saturday morning, hours before Seton Hall destroyed Duke, and Pirates guard Gerald Greene moseyed into his team`s meal room. As he walked through a line and collected his...

Kendall Gill stood there last weekend in a Minneapolis hotel lobby and thought back to the broken foot he suffered against Georgia Tech last January. ''I didn`t think I`d be...

The theme arose often during this long college basketball season, and on Friday, Lou Henson belted out the riff again. His Illini, his bruised and battered Illini, had just defeated...

The Scare came 40 minutes into the Illinois practice. That is when Kenny Battle, its 6-foot-6-inch forward and spiritual leader, jogged to the right baseline to recover a loose ball,...

Of tears and jeers, athletes and attitudes, crashing bodies and boys being boys . . . - Crash! Bam! The pick, the tougher-than-a-cheap-cut-of-beef pick, is a major weapon in Indiana`s...

Talk, talk . . . The past, not the future, was the topic, and North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano was considering a pair of performances that highlighted Friday`s opening...

Here, for hors d`oeuvres, are a few figures to digest. Dikembe Mutombo-Georgetown`s listed-at-6-foot-11-but-really-7-foot-2-and-growing center-has blocked 72 shots this season. That is 11 more than those managed against the Hoyas by...