Dick Vitale, longtime ABC/ESPN NCAA college basketball analyst, reveals cancer diagnosis after lymph node biopsy

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Dick Vitale, the longtime ESPN NCAA college basketball commentator and analyst, said doctors diagnosed him with cancer after undergoing a biopsy of his Lymph Nodes in his neck.

“I will win this battle,” Vitale said on X.

Vitale was previously diagnosed with lymphoma in his neck in 2021. After surgery in November of 2023, he said his vocal cord cancer “is gone.”

ABC/ESPN basketball analyst Dick Vitale calls a NCAA college basketball game between the Baylor Bears and the Villanova Wildcats on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, in Waco, Texas.

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Vitale said he will undergo surgery on Tuesday adding it “will be a success.”

Vitale has been with ESPN since 1979, the year the network launched. He called ESPN’s first college basketball broadcast.

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