VATICAN CITY Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman has been turning up in the strangest places.

<strong>45<\/strong>95 3119 15 288777 112157″ style=”max-width:450px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;”>On the heels of a tour of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, where he professed his friendship to leader and U.S. top-antagonist Kim Jong Un, CBS News caught up with the flamboyant basketball player in Vatican City, in his new capacity as a front-man for the Irish gambling company Paddy Power. </p> </p> <p>The online betting behemoth chose Rodman to help promote its offered odds on who will be chosen by the Catholic cardinals as the next pope. </p> </p> <p>Though he insists he doesn’t gamble, “on stuff like that,” Rodman wasn’t shy about telling CBS News who he thought the next pontiff would be. </p> </p> <p>“Today we always want to see something different, and this is going to be different. He will be black, he will be black,” professed the former all-star forward. </p> </p> <p>He suggested Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson was the man to win it. Turkson has been named as a contender in the conclave, should the cardinals decide to elect their first pontiff in modern times from outside of Europe. </p> </p> <p>Paddy Power, <a href=바카라 자동 배팅 incidentally, has Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola as a clear front-runner, at least in terms of betting odds.

Rodman said he hoped to meet the new pope while in Rome, whoever he may be.