Seton Hall’s Pope proves to be no saint

ANOTHER nice job by Seton Hall basketball on behalf of its student-athlete, full-scholarship recruits! Herb Pope, 6-foot-8 SHU forward, 2008-2012, Thursday in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery. At SHU he majored in social science behavior.

This just in: Statistical context provided on ESPN! Really! Play-by-play man Bob Wischusen at halftime of Saturday’s Iowa St.-Kansas, noted that ISU had only three rebounds — but then explained that KU didn’t allow many opportunities, having shot 70 percent.

So there’s the U.S. men’s soccer team, Friday night on FS1, in a friendly versus Jamaica. U.S. wore its traditional maroon, blue and mostly black Nike uniforms. Jamaican team wore its country’s colors.

Reader Tom Lalli, Newport, R.I., suggests that another way to increase the pace of games — removed by those who know what’s best for us basketball — is to eliminate the timewasting new-age ritual of all five players slapping hands after one makes or misses a first-of-two (or three) free throw. Yep, that’s a habit that has outlived the usefulness it never had.

Didn’t matter that Baylor’s school colors are green and yellow or that the school’s athletic department, after two BU football players’ convictions for rape, is now suspected of recruiting 31 student-athletes who committed 52 rapes over four years, Baylor still showed up to play basketball at Kansas and on ESPN2, Wednesday, dressed in its “we-bad black” Nike uniforms.

Reader Steve Arendash notes that Mike Francesa’s non-televised shows from the Super Bowl, last week, were repeatedly interrupted — by Francesa, returning the good wishes of those he knows as they passed by. “Was that to show us peons how many people he knows?” Steve, I’d lay even-money that he was swapping hellos with people who weren’t even there.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office last week accused Time-Warner Cable of false advertising. Reminds us of when T-W didn’t clear the NFL Network, insisting that no one wanted it. When it added NFLN, it sold it as “We finally have what you’ve been waiting for!”