Dick Vitale emotional in return to booth for Gonzaga-UCLA amid cancer battle

Posted Nov 27, 2021
College basketball broadcasting legend Dick Vitale returned to the booth for ESPN’s broadcast of the Gonzaga-UCLA game on Tuesday, one month after he revealed that he’d been diagnosed with lymphoma. When Vitale revealed the lymphoma diagnosis in an essay on Oct. 18, he said that he planned to continue working while undergoing chemotherapy. (Awful Announcing)

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