Bucky Badger vs. Pope John Paul II? It’s a slam dunk for hoops fans and very late night viewing for put-off pontiff buffs.
Wednesday night’s University of Wisconsin men’s basketball game will pre-empt the second part of the CBS miniseries “Pope John Paul II” on WISC-TV/Channel 3, prompting irate phone calls and e-mails to station management from viewers of the first part of the biopic Sunday night, who don’t want to stay up until 1 a.m. Thursday morning to see Jon Voight as the late pontiff John Paul II.