The Dick Vitale You Don't Know
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Many people only know Dick Vitale through his happy-go-lucky, extremely energetic and at times almost cartoonish on-air persona. Today, on what would have been the day of the men's college basketball national title game, Seth Davis of The Athletic joins us to talk about the iconic broadcaster's remarkable career — and some of the very human struggles he has endured over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight was supposed to be the men's college basketball national title game. |
| 0:10.7 | And even though he would not have been calling the game this evening, one of the most iconic |
| 0:14.8 | voices in the game for decades now is that of Dick Vitow. |
| 0:26.6 | Many people know Vitow as this happy go lucky guy, an almost cartoonish game caller. |
| 0:32.8 | But the athletic Seth Davis recently sat down with a broadcasting legend to talk about |
| 0:37.2 | some of the little known and very human struggles he's endured for many years. |
| 0:43.2 | The terror he feels going into surgery, knowing this doctor is going to operate on him and |
| 0:49.9 | when he wakes up he's going to find out if he has cancer, he's going to find out if he |
| 0:54.2 | still has his voice. |
| 1:01.2 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:04.2 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:06.2 | It's Monday, April 6th and this is Believe. |
| 1:10.2 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:14.2 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the game. |
| 1:18.2 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in your home. |
| 1:29.8 | It stays with you. |
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