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Dick Vitale (official thread)

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Anyone that passionate about the game is cool with me. Yeah, he likes Mike, but I seem to remember he was pretty high on a Bobby, and a Smith from UNC, a Maguire, and a few others. Get well Dick, a lot of us will miss you.
 
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College basketball
Vocal cord surgery silences Vitale broadcasts for now

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:07 AM




NEW YORK (AP) -- Dick Vitale, the voice of college basketball for almost three decades, had vocal cord surgery yesterday and is expected to be off the air until at least February.

The 68-year-old Vitale said on his Web site that he will still give his take on college basketball through postings on ESPN.com and dickvitaleonline.com while he recuperates. He expects to return to the air in early February.
The surgery to treat ulcers on his left vocal cord was performed by Dr. Steven Zeitels at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Vitale had never missed an assignment in his 28-plus seasons at ESPN.

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LitlBuck;1033125; said:
Wish him well in his recovery but hopefully they smoothed out his vocal cords during the surgery and maybe he won't be able to scream into the microphone when he is analyzing a game.
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Another caricature product of the Evil Empire :shake: Listen to some of the classic games on the BTN, he's very controlled and somewhat insightful. None of the annoying yelling at all.
 
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College basketball
Throat healed, Vitale set to break his silence

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:56 AM
By Rachel Cohen


ASSOCIATED PRESS



Say something. Anything. Just do the very thing that made him famous. But Dick Vitale couldn't. Tears welled in his eyes as he imagined his beloved career crashing to an end.
Then the doctor suggested he count to 10. And with the simplest of words, Vitale heard his own voice again for the first time in weeks.
ESPN's hyperkinetic college basketball announcer will call his first game in more than two months Wednesday after recovering from surgery to treat ulcers on his left vocal cord. It was the cruelest of ailments for the man who yelled his way to becoming a household name. His treatment? A ban on speaking.
"There was a moment there I thought I'd never be behind a microphone again," Vitale said yesterday on a conference call, sounding a bit subdued but very much like himself.



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The game also marked the return of Dick Vitale to his broadcasting job with ESPN. Vitale was out more than two months because of lesions on his left vocal cord.
The North Carolina students, who have been known for changing his nickname to "Dukie V." on occasion because of some perceptions that he favors the "other" school in the rivalry, were genuinely excited to see him.
The more the students cheered and chanted, the closer Vitale got to crying and eventually the tears streamed down his face before the game.
"This is unbelievable. It's been like this since Dec. 5 when I found out about the lesions in my throat," Vitale said. "The phone calls, the notes and letters, the gift baskets. How lucky can a man be? On Dec. 5, I never thought I'd be here again."
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IronBuckI;1086199; said:
It really truly sucked to hear him again.
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Could not agree more, before Dickheads return, it was so nice listening to a game and not having to mute it in order to not throw up in my mouth, with his rantings and ravings.

It is a shame that he has regressed as an announcer, from a passionate if overenthusiastic one, to the blabbering, slobbering, screaming, homeristic douche he has become.
 
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I really love to hear Dick Vitale. Love his passion, love his enthusiasm for the college game. Don't like his cheap shot against Lawrence Funderburke, but I can live with the overall package.

Sorry so many of you guys dislike him so intensely.
 
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