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07/11/11 ESPN analyst Dick Vitale recently listed six teams that could surprise next season. Among them: USC. That might seem hard to fathom given the Trojans' losses from last season's NCAA Tournament team. Third-year USC coach Kevin O'Neill lost a first-round draft pick in Nikola Vucevic, the Pac-10's Defensive Player of the Year in Marcus Simmons and a two-year starter in Alex Stepheson. But for the ...
07/07/11 Terry Vitale, 66, originally from Bergen County, N.J., and sister of legendary sportscaster Dick Vitale, moved to Denver in 1967 with three gal pals after reading in a magazine that Denver was the nation's hottest city for singles. Today, she helms Colorado Expression, a high-society magazine that turns 20 this month. She sat down recently with Bill Husted at the Chinook Tavern.
07/07/11 Terry Vitale, 66, originally from Bergen County, N.J., and sister of legendary sportscaster Dick Vitale, moved to Denver in 1967 with three gal pals after reading in a magazine that Denver was the nation's hottest city for singles. Today, she helms Colorado Expression, a high-society magazine that turns 20 this month. She sat down recently with Bill Husted at the Chinook Tavern.
06/16/11 # theresonlyone A few things to clear up, America: ESPN's Dick Vitale has never been to North Conway, New Hampshire, and he harbors no resentment for the Conway School District superintendent, Carl Nelson. This contention was at long last cleared up last week, when Lorraine Vitale did a standard Google search for her husband's name and found a critical letter to the editor of the Conway Daily ...
06/16/11 Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - What if everyone approached their respective jobs with the unbridled passion that Dick Vitale displays every time he talks college hoops.
06/16/11 By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Thursday, June 16, 2011 St. Petersburg Times staff writer Tom Jones offers up his Two Cents on the world of sports. Confusion of the day Last week Dick Vitale's wife, Lorraine , was doing a Google search on her husband's name and noticed a letter to the editor in the Conway (N.H.) Daily Sun that said something about the Conway School District superintendent ...
06/02/11 From honoring Dick Vitale to a discussion of banning fertilizer in Tampa, here are five things you need to know happening in Florida on Thursday, June 2.
05/21/11 Kentucky coach John Calipari, left, and North Carolina coach Roy Williams, right, were two of Dick Vitale??s featured guets at the Dick Vitale Gala for the V Foundation at the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota, Fla., Friday.
05/03/11 "It's Awesome Baby with a Capital A!" That phrase should ring a bell from Basketball Hall of Fame coach Dick Vitale , who you'll hear almost every night on ESPN during the college basketball season.
04/10/11 ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale will be greeting fans and signing books at the SWFL Youth Basketball League registration on April 16 at the Seacrest Country Day School upper gymnasium.
04/06/11 In a perfect world, every NCAA basketball tournament would be like this last one, with mid-majors busting brackets, crashing the Final Four and making Dick Vitale's eyes bulge. It would be nice to think we might be inching closer to that now that Shaka Smart has signed an eight-year contract ...
04/01/11 He became the symbol of the national bias toward VCU. His unbridled rant against the NCAA selection committee for picking the Rams became a rallying cry for the team and the city. On Friday, Dick Vitale made things right with VCU and helped out a good cause at the same time.
03/29/11 As many college basketball fans -- including those in Richmond, of course -- call out television analysts like Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas for their chatter about VCU's worthiness in the NCAA tournament field, another analyst thinks the focus in on the wrong thing.
03/16/11 The support Austin Dufault heard from Digger Phelps, Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas sounded nice. But it didn't diminish the shock Dufault and his University of Colorado basketball teammates felt Sunday night when they learned they were not selected to play in this week's NCAA tournament. Talk about this topic
03/08/11 You can break out all the analyses you want. Chart trends. Scour injury reports. Even call Dick Vitale. It's all of no use.
02/23/11 Dick Vitale may be the most well-known announcer who calls college basketball games, but he's not the sport's only great voice. The players on the court may provide the bulk of the entertainment during any given game, but it's the announcers who bring the game to life. Their excitement and thoughtful insight really helps viewers remain engaged throughout the contest. A boring pair of ...
02/20/11 RICHMOND, Va. -- Adjehi Baru is full of surprises. Ask North Carolina head coach Roy Williams. Ask the rest of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Dick Vitale and the college basketball world in general.
02/05/11 Illinois (15-8, 5-5 Big Ten) beating Northwestern (14-8, 4-7) used to be a given in college basketball, like Loren Tate advocating redshirts or Dick Vitale hyping Duke. The Illini won 19 of 20 matchups from 1999-2009. On Saturday, Illinois never led and now owns a losing streak at Northwestern for the first time since 1975.
01/25/11 Many teams will emerge and recede, and Dick Vitale will scream himself hoarse in the seven-plus weeks before Selection Sunday. But as conference races approach halftime, our fair commonwealth is positioned for record representation in the NCAA basketball tournament.
11/12/10 ESPN' Dick Vitale , arguably the preeminent and most influential broadcaster in college basketball, has a thing for UCLA. It's okay to have a crush on a school, but it's not okay when that infatuation gets in the way of reason. And Vitale is so in love with the powder blue Bruins, he doesn't recognize any other school in the Pac-10. In a national teleconference Tuesday, Vitale and co-hort Jay ...
10/09/10 ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale will receive the 2010 Chris Greicius Celebrity Award. |