Quick recovery: NCAA probation often seems a...

Quick recovery: NCAA probation often seems a mere annoyance, rather than devastation to a basketball program. On probation in recent years, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Syracuse recovered quickly enough to play in the NCAA tournament this weekend.

Maybe it’s the company: Word is that there was much grousing on the New York Yankee bus from Sarasota, Fla., back to their spring base at Ft. Lauderdale after a game against the Chicago White Sox. Word is that it might have been because owner George Steinbrenner was aboard.