UPDATED with latest: Veteran ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale offered an update on his years-long battle with cancer today, and it was a tough one. “My report on the Biopsy of the Lymph Node in my neck has arrived & it is cancerous,” wrote Vitale. He went on to note he will have surgery on Tuesday before pledging, “I will win this battle.
” Vitale has been with ESPN since 1979, the year the network launched. He called ESPN’s first college basketball broadcast. His trademark cry of “Awesome, baby,” has marked hundreds of hoop moments.
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In 2022, he announced that he was cancer-free, before announcing in 2023 that he had vocal chord cancer. He underwent surgery for that shortly after making the annoucement. My report on the Biopsy of the Lymph Node in my neck has arrived & it is cancerous .
With all the 🙏🙏🙏 I have received & the loving support of my family,friends & @espn colleagues I will win this battle .🙏🙏🙏 surgery on Tues. will be a success .
Thanks for All the prayers. — Dick Vitale (@DickieV) June 28, 2024 PREVIOUSLY on July 12, 2023: ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale said Wednesday th.
