"... He's like a proud dad, but yeah, he's cool," added Collins, who was coached by Pope earlier this summer as part of a USA ...

Rick Pitino told his 1996 Kentucky basketball team that he would kill them if they didn't win every game, according to Mark Pope.

Mark Pope has a message for Rick Pitino ahead of their December showdown. ... Pitino, now at St. John’s, coached Pope during Kentucky’s 1996 national title run.

Mark Pope and the Kentucky basketball coaching staff will be out recruiting this week at the premier event in grassroots basketball.

Eckman, 66, is slated to be installed as bishop on July 14 during a special mass at Saint Paul Cathedral in Oakland. ... Pope appoints Bishop Mark Eckman as leader of Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese.

The Most Rev. Mark S. Rivituso, who has served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis since 2017, has been appointed as the third A ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Eckman to succeed Bishop Zubik due to Zubik reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Everyone agrees that Mark Pope’s first season at Kentucky was a success — except for Pope, of course, whose standard is winning the national championship. Now that next year’s roster is ...

Head coach Mark Pope has put together what will end up being one of the toughest early slates in the entire country. Kentucky will face the likes of St. John’s (No. 3), Louisville (No. 5 ...

In year one, the expectations for newly hired Kentucky head coach Mark Pope were not that high. He had to put together a roster made up of transfer portal players and only had about a month to do it.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, ... offering a message of communion during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, ...