Vitale going back to transmitting for Duke-Clemson

Hall of Popularity broadcaster Dick Vitale will return to relaying for the very first time in almost 2 years for Saturday’s match featuring No. 2 Duke at Clemson at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN.Vitale, 85, who has actually been fighting cancer for the previous 3 1/2 years, announced he was cancer-free on Jan. 8.

Vitale’s return to calling games had actually been held off due to a mishap at his home. He formerly was set to call the Duke-Wake Forest game on Jan. 25, which would have been his very first time on air given that 2023, however he announced that he had actually been hospitalized after a fall at his Florida home.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated Vitale has battled 4 various kinds of cancer in the past 3 1/2 years. Most just recently, he went through surgical treatment in summertime 2024 after a biopsy of a lymph node in his neck showed cancer.In 2021, Vitale

was detected with lymphoma, months after he had numerous surgeries to get rid of melanoma. In 2022, he revealed he was cancer-free. Then in 2023, he was identified with vocal cord cancer and went through radiation.Vitale’s last game project was almost two years ago– on April

3, 2023, calling the worldwide broadcast of the San Diego State vs. UConn championship game for ESPN. He revealed he was cancer-free again in November 2023. Vitale joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season, simply after ESPN’s launch, and called the

network’s first significant NCAA basketball game on Dec. 5, 1979. He has gone on to call well over 1,000 games, and in September 2024, he was inducted into the Broadcasting +Cable Television Hall of Popularity.