Skip Myslenski

''You find college coaches now looking for 6-7 guys with athletic ability, and I think pro coaches are going to start looking to find 6-9 guys with athletic ability (to...

More than 290 Division I teams began their basketball seasons last November. Now, only a select 64 still have a shot at the NCAA title. More than 3,500 Division I...

Notes on a native son . . . Lead on: They are sometimes called ''The Three Amigos.'' They are, at other times, referred to as ''The In-It-To-Win-It Crew.'' No matter....

Gary Leonard, the 7-foot-1-inch Missouri center, flopped onto a folding chair and began reflecting on the unsettling series of events that had recently buffeted the Tigers. There was the Feb....

A simple proposal designed to strengthen college admission standards for athletes caused a firestorm in the athletic community last week. It exposed some of the hypocrisies in big-time college sport,...

Steroids, of course, are not the only way athletes look for that magic competitive edge. Indeed, their insatiable search for it often leads them to ingest a veritable cornucopia of...

Mr. Robert Goldman (right), the Chicagoan who is considered one of the world`s reigning experts on steroids, is in touch with athletes across the country, and they often pass along...

In the early 1970s, Jack Scott was known as one of the sports worlds reigning radicals and the guru of National Basketball Association star Bill Walton. Later, he gained fame...

Chicago`s Kelcie Banks, who now trains out of Houston, took his first step toward a spot on the Olympic boxing team by easily winning his opening bout of the Trials...

David Cruikshank, who won the 1,000-meter race at the U.S. speedskating trials, was told Thursday that he won`t compete in that race at the Olympics. ''Here we are two days...