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2026-11-01 · Toronto Star · Sports

Notre Dame beats Villanova 74-72 in men's college basketball season opener in Rome

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2026-11-01 · Toronto Star · Sports

Villanova and Notre Dame open the college basketball season in Rome following papal audience

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2026-10-31 · The Independent · Sports

Pope Leo dribbles golden basketball and tries to stay neutral as rival US teams descend on Vatican

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2026-10-31 · Toronto Star · Sports

Pope Leo receiving teams and fans from US college basketball before their games in Rome

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2026-10-30 · Toronto Star · Sports

It's much more than just a hoop and a prayer for Notre Dame and Villanova team chaplains in Rome

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2026-10-29 · Toronto Star · Sports

Villanova touches down in Rome for college basketball season opener and papal audience

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2026-09-16 · Toronto Star

🔮 The WTA Finals, the elite season-ending event in women’s tennis, will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the next three years in a move that organizers hope will create “the Super Bowl for women’s sports.” assertive

2026-10-01 · Toronto Star

🔮 While he couldn’t obtain Italian citizenship until he turned 18 due to controversial immigration laws, Kayode was permitted to play for Italy’s under-18, under-19 and under-21 teams courtesy of a “sporting birthright” rule that allows foreign minors born in the country to be called up to junior national teams. assertive

2026-10-15 · Toronto Star

🔮 With tennis stars like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner missing long stretches this year due to injury, the ATP Tour is proposing rule changes it says will “reduce the pressure to overplay and help players manage the demands of the season.” assertive

2026-10-21 · Toronto Star

🔮 the Villanova and Notre Dame men’s and women’s teams will meet in a doubleheader in Rome — not quite Vatican City, but close enough — on Nov. 1 that will mark the start of the college basketball season. assertive

2026-10-29 · Toronto Star

🔮 ROME (AP) — It hit Villanova coach Kevin Willard early Thursday morning when he got off the charter flight that carried the university’s men’s and women’s teams to Rome for Sunday’s season-opening college basketball doubleheader against Notre Dame. Villanova, Willard believes, has a responsibility to represent Pope Leo XIV, who graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the Augustinian school near Philadelphia. assertive

2026-10-30 · Toronto Star

🔮 McCormick may be best known for his call to postgame mass after the third quarters of Notre Dame football games. assertive

2026-10-31 · Toronto Star

🔮 Pope Leo XIV is set to hold a private audience on Saturday with basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova, and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame, plus thousands of traveling American fans in town for the season opener. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Independent

🔮 Yet the pope, born Robert Prevost, acknowledged that his former self might hold a different view. assertive

2026-11-01 · Toronto Star

🔮 Then the pope, who was born Robert Prevost, said his former self might disagree. assertive