Dick Vitale is Back
The New York Post‘s Phil Mushnick points out today that Dick Vitale will return to ESPN a week from tonight when he calls the Duke/North Carolina game:
Vitale, 68, has been out since just before Christmas, having undergone surgery to remove non-malignant ulcers from his throat – ulcers caused by years of emoting into courtside microphones, often throughout four and five games per week.
Vitale, his voice instantly associated with ESPN’s biggest games since 1979, has been instructed to no longer work on consecutive days.
This college season has been great so far, but have you missed Vitale at all?
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January 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
YOUNGFED says:
uhmmmmmmm……NO
January 30th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Dime Magazine says:
not at all? yeah, he can be pretty annoying (especially if you don’t like Duke), but he’s still a college basketball fixture.
-PC
January 30th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Taliban says:
I don’t get all y’all hatin on Vitale. The dude is a staple of college basketball. Actually, he’s a staple of sports. To give y’all some perspective on just how long and how important he’s been to the game, ESPN’s President George Bodenheimer started as Dickie V’s driver!
January 30th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Andrew says:
Are you serious? That’s crazy. I have a love/hate relationship with Vitale (well I guess you can say it’s less of a relationship and more of an opinion…) – He’s done a lot for the UNC/Duke rivalry as the color guy who captures the intensity and excitement of a game better than anybody else on the mic. But at the same time, he’ll go off the edge on occasion and lose his mind when Jon Scheyer hits a three, even though he’s dripping in bum juice.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
GEE ...I got 4 on it and will hit you with the other 1 later! says:
Dick is cool. He is certainly better than a lot of other cats in the game. He is comical too. Did I remember he was gone though….naaaahhhh.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Bust Jlaze says:
Pause…
January 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
GEE...You been waitin and debatin for oh so long. says:
LOL let me clarify…Dick Vitale is cool. Wow. I was really slippin on the pimpin there.
Can’t believe I didn’t catch that.
The shame.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
doc says:
He just need to fall back on the ball hopping of some Duke and Carolina players.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Vertman says:
Some of you are very very very gay. That Dick is annoying as can be. Finally his voice have been shut down! I mean, what a moron, what do you expect when you yell all the time?!
January 31st, 2008 at 5:02 am
mr.fresh says:
Dick is cool in moderation.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 am
JR says:
Even Duke fans don’t like Vitale anymore. He doesn’t comment on the game, he makes remarks that he thinks are admiring of Duke but in reality make Duke a more hated team… and he never watches the game he’s supposed to be working.