It’s unbelievable! Former Rutgers basketball assistant, the legendary Dick Vitale, is cancer-free
Dick Vitale is cancer-free.
A legend and one of the most beloved personalities in not just college basketball but the entire sports industry, Vitale announced to the world on his social media channels that he is now cancer-free. Vitale had been battling lymphoma, a diagnosis that he revealed this past October.
He did the traditional ringing of the bell at Sarasota Memorial Hospital where he received his treatment. The ringing of the bell is a long-standing tradition in many hospitals for patients who have completed treatment and are free of cancer.
Vitale’s roots in New Jersey are deep. The 82-year old Vitale was born in Passaic, attended Seton Hall, took his first coaching jobs at Garfield High School and then in East Rutherford. He then spent two seasons at Rutgers as an assistant under Dick Young.
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Vitale then became a national name for his coaching job at Detroit, taking the program to the NCAA Tournament. He then spent a little over a season in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons before beginning a four-decade career at ESPN as one of their analysts and personalities.
