Spike Lee Reacts To The New Pope Having Knicks Ties

Pope Leo XIV brings hope to Chicago sports fans, and Knicks for their Villanova ties

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV brings hope to the Knicks for their Villanova ties, and Chicago sports fans

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Elected on Thursday, Robert Prevost is the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born missionary, who took the name Leo XIV, attended Villanova University near Philadelphia, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1977. The election of the new pope coinc…

Spike Lee Reacts To The New Pope Having Knicks Ties

Meet The Girlfriend Of Karl-Anthony Towns (1:11) Director Spike Lee and Pope Leo XIV have something in common today: They both have ties to the New York Knicks.Lee is arguably the most famous Knicks fan on the planet, having been a courtside ticketholder to their games for decades. Scarcely a game goes without cameras panning to him at least several times.As for Leo XIV, the American-born pope is a graduate of Villanova University and appears to…

Everyone Is Saying The Same Thing About The Knicks After Villanova Alum Becomes New Pope Amid Playoff Surge

Pope LEO XIV (Photo via Twitter) Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the new Pope, and the New York Knicks fans are the happiest. Recently, like many of the NY fans, Spike Lee just took his love for the team to a whole new level. The legendary Oscar-winning director and die-hard Knicks fan had a long Instagram post dedicated to Pope. He recently reacted to the Vatican’s election of the new Pope. And in true Spike fashion, he decl…

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has a strong link with science. In addition to his ecclesial studies, he holds a degree in mathematics from the Augustinian University of Villanova, United States. He is not the first pontiff with this formation. Silvestre II, who led to Catholicism at the end of the 10th century, was a scholar who studied mathematics, astronomy and was the introducer of the Hindu-Arab numbers we use today. That Cardina…

Three players of the titular quintet of the New York Knicks studied at the same university as Robert Prevost, the new Pope acclaimed as Leo XIV. The Holy Pontiff graduated from the Catholic Augustinian University of Villanova in 1977 in Mathematics being one of the best of his promotion before starting his ecclesiastical career. Leon XIV lived for several decades in Peru and later became one of the trusted men of Pope Francis being transferred t…