During a summer session with reporters at North Laurel High School in London, Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope was asked about star transfer forward Jayden Quaintance. A prodigious talent who ...

Derrick Rose has had his fair share of epic battles on the court and in every defeat, he was understandably low in spirits. However, Rose revealed that there was something even more depressing than ...

(CNN) — On the face of it, playing chess and competing in the NBA couldn’t be further apart. One requires monk-like levels of silent concentration – particularly in classical chess – while the other ...

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope uses games of chess to bond with his players. UK sophomores Collin Chandler and Jayden Quaintance have played chess against Pope. There’s also basketball-related ...