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Dick Vitale, the legendary voice of college basketball, is returning to the air for the first time since 2023. The Hall of Fame broadcaster will call the Duke-Wake Forest men's college basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 25 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Vitale, 85, has battled four different types of cancer in the past three and a half years. Most recently, he underwent surgery in the summer of 2024 after a biopsy of a lymph node in his neck showed cancer. Vitale announced on Jan. 8 that he was cancer-free. "I am absolutely ecstatic and I...

Dick Vitale didn't even realize he was on the radio. Billy Packer was more concerned about a Duke player being suspended than about a North Carolina player having his nose splattered across his face. Brent Musberger gave away one of the USC quarterback's hand signals. Lee Corso was last seen wearing a mascot head. Anybody for term limits for TV sportscasters? Some would describe these episodes as senior moments, inasmuch as ESPN's Vitale, CBS' Packer and ABC's Musberger are all 67 and ESPN's Corso an even riper 70. The bigger question, of course, is: Why do these four fogies continue...

Rahm Emanuel missed his calling in life. Rather than heading the Dem's congressional campaign committee, he should have become a professional in the sport of freediving - holding your breath and diving without any breathing apparatus. Judging by his performance on this today's Good Morning America, there's no doubt Rahm would have been a world champion.In the closely-controlled world of the first half-hour [really 22 minutes] of the morning news shows, hosts keep a notoriously tight rein on their guests. Even notorious gabbers like Joe Biden are lucky to get in 15 seconds in before being cut short. Katie Couric,...