Weeks before she died, Shirley Malone sat across from her son, Karl, in the kitchen of his ranch house, set on 5,000 acres of timber and ponds in southern Arkansas. She was 64. Karl had been her ...

Karl Malone needs a new nickname. His current name, “The Mailman,” came from when he played basketball at Louisiana Tech University and “always delivered.” But in his ninth … ...

Karl Malone and John Stockton went toe-to-toe against the Hall of Fame trio of Hakeem Olajuwon, ... Drexler felt the Mailman's muscular arms around him. In other words, it was an illegal screen.

Which is precisely why we placed a call to Karl Malone's agent Dwight Manley, ... I put my arms up for my grandpa to carry me the rest of the way and I will never forget what he said.

“I just think back on it, and I’m like, man, he would’ve kicked my ass if I had run up on him, 'cause I was skin and bones. But his arms were so big, and he was so strong, it was hard to get ...

Karl Malone recalls how Shaq slapped Greg Ostertag, ... John Stockton and O'Neal both corroborated Malone's story on the call — Stockton with arms crossed, and O'Neal with a big smile on his face.

Malone scored 36,928 points across his 19-year professional career, while Abdul-Jabbar sat in first place with 38,387 until James inherited the top spot Feb. 7. Filed under karl malone ...

Karl Malone will be a judge in the Slam-Dunk Contest at the NBA's All-Star Weekend, but the Hall of Famer's past shouldn't be forgotten, Tribune columnist Gordon Monson writes.