Ivy League

To understand why Georgetown coach John Thompson III regards basketball the way he does -- as an accretion of details and small remediations -- it's worth revisiting a February night in Providence in 1988. Back then...

The New England dusk, dank and gloomy, was spreading over the Trinity College campus, a preppy haven in a working-class section of Hartford. In dribs and drabs, students, hundreds of them, were making their way down...

Some of the nation's top football factories wanted Jonathan Meyers. Michigan offered him a scholarship. So did Oklahoma. And UCLA. And Florida, among dozens of others. The Greenwich (Conn.) High fullback/linebacker...

Welcome to this week's Dean's List, where we're wrapping our presents in the Mitchell Report and stuffing our stockings with old pictures of Topanga.

When St. Mary's coach Randy Bennett took his team on a tour of Australia three summers ago, he wanted to try out guard Todd Golden at the point. And while the Gaels fared well, Bennett watched his new front man get...