ESPN.com · Jan 18, 2025
ESPN's Dick Vitale to call 1st game after beating cancer 4th time
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Dick Vitale, the legendary voice of college basketball, is returning to the air for the first time since 2023.
The Hall of Fame broadcaster will call the Duke-Wake Forest men's college basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 25 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Vitale, 85, has battled four different types of cancer in the past three and a half years. Most recently, he underwent surgery in the summer of 2024 after a biopsy of a lymph node in his neck showed cancer. Vitale announced on Jan. 8 that he was cancer-free.
