Dick Vitale is a famous American basketball broadcaster. He received the Jimmy V Award on Wednesday at the 2022 ESPY Awards. In August 2021, Dick Vitale made an announcement where he said that he was suffering from Melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Two months later, in another announcement, the 82-year-old Basketball broadcaster said that he had also been diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.

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Dick Vitale is the multiple-hall of Famer basketball announcer for ESPN who has a 41-year-work portfolio. He has received several awards and accolades including 5 Hall of Fame tags to his name. He became the 16th Jimmy V Award winner at ESPY awards 2022 on Wednesday.

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The Jimmy V Award is given to sports personalities for overcoming extraordinary obstacles through perseverance. It is called the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. Dick Vitale beat Lymphoma and Melanoma and announced that he was cancer free in April 2022.

Vitale, the author of nine books, gave an emotional speech after receiving the Jimmy V Award at the ESPY Awards 2022. He praised the Jimmy V Foundation for being a funder for research into finding a cure for cancer. ‘’No kid should be going through chemo or radiation. Cancer does not discriminate, it comes after all.’’ Vitale said.

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‘’It doesn’t matter race or religion. It will bring you to your knees. There is only one way to beat it. We’ve got to raise dollars and give oncologists a fighting chance. Keep chasing your dreams, keep chasing your goals’’ he concluded.

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In 1958 Dick Vitale became the coach of Garfield High School and then moved to East Rutherford High School where he coached the high school basketball team for 7 years. He also served as the head coach of Rutgers University and the University of Detroit before he was assigned to train the Detroit Pistons of the NBA in 1978. Vitale began broadcasting for ESPN in 1980 and continued until last year when he had to take a break because of his cancer diagnosis.