Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale announced Wednesday that he is once again facing a bout with cancer.
The 84-year-old former coach, who’s been calling games for the network for over four decades, wrote in a statement that he has vocal cord cancer and will undergo six weeks of radiation treatment. Surgery is not expected, and he shared that his doctor told him that his condition has an “extremely high cure rate.”
“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the fall. [My doctor] feels that scenario is entirely possible,” Vitale wrote. “I want to say that I have been so touched by the tweets, texts, notes and prayers, and will ask all of you to continue to send positive vibes.”
