Dick Vitale News

Dick Vitale says the teams that pass on Stephen Curry in the NBA draft are making a huge mistake.

Happy Birthday to Dick Vitale. The sports commentator, famous for his one-liners, turns 70-years-old today.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Natalie Portman, 28; Johnny Depp, 46; Michael J. Fox, 48; Dick Vitale, 70 Happy Birthday: Subtlety will be what works for you this year.

Guitarist-inventor Les Paul is 94. Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 70. Actor Johnny Depp is 46.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Downtown Indianapolis for the Indy 500 Festival Parade.

I've known - and been friends with - Dick Vitale for close to 40 years. I felt he took a punctuation on his career last fall when he was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame as a contributor, but the work he does raising money for the V Foundation, which does cancer research, may be even more impressive.

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Lee Roy Selmon is using his soft-spoken voice to promote respect.

Dick Vitale thinks his new temporary gig is just awesome, baby. The ESPN college basketball analyst and Basketball Hall of Famer was announced Tuesday as this year's Indy 500 Festival Parade grand marshal.

Cancer doctor Scott Tetreault has a painting in his Sarasota office at Florida Cancer Specialists that depicts a swarm of aggressive University of Miami Hurricanes ganging up on former University of Florida running back Earnest Graham.

Legendary college basketball analyst Dick Vitale will be this year's Grand Marshal of the 2009 IPL 500 Festival Parade .

SportsNation gave only one A and one F in its grading of the NFL draft. The Bay Area might never be the same.

Dick Vitale thinks his new temporary gig is just awesome, baby. The ESPN college basketball analyst and Basketball Hall of Famer was announced Tuesday as this year's Indy 500 Festival Parade grand marshal.

Greeny and Golic discuss North Carolina's win over Michigan State with UNC coach Roy Williams, Andy Katz, Bob Knight, Jay Bilas and Dick Vitale.

New York Times writer and Free Press alum Joe Lapointe caught up with ESPN commentator Dick Vitale, who's in Detroit with week, covering the Final Four.

You might think that with the Final Four in full swing, Dick Vitale would have nothing on his mind but college basketball.

The Final Four is set and now it's time to predict the winners. Is your Final Four still intact or did Louisville cause your bracket to fly down the ranks like ours? Talk TODAY ON ESPN 6 to 10 a.m. ET - Listen! 7:25 a.m. ET: Dick Vitale 8:10 a.m. ET: Jay Bilas 9:25 a.m. ET: Andy Katz SportsCenter 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET - Listen! The Herd with Colin ...

Emerging from her husband's dressing room slightly out of breath and sporting nothing more than a silk robe and tousled hair, Lorraine Vitale, wife of iconic ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, told reporters Sunday that her spouse is at his sexual peak during March Madness.

It was Christmas in March for Dick Vitale this morning. The national voice of college basketball sat in his "office" -- a table at the Broken Egg restaurant in Lakewood Ranch -- and talked with other diners, local media and national talk shows about his favorite subject: the NCAA tournament.

What's not to love about NCAA basketball's thrilling, chilling March Madness? It's awesome, baby, as sports announcer Dick Vitale would tell anyone within screaming distance.

Here's one we missed earlier in the week . Dick Vitale has some kind words for the job John Calipari has done this season.