Dick Vitale Inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

Dick Vitale, perhaps the best known basketball commentator of all time, college or pro, has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dickie V was inducted into the Hall along with Pat Riley, Adrian Dantley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, William Davidson and Cathy Rush, but for this purpose of the Final Four Blog, and many others who were in attendance, Vitale was the star of the show. While the other players and coaches did a fair job at giving their speeches, everyone wanted to see Dickie V’s exuberant pep talk, which was classic Vitale the whole way through.

If you get a chance you should check out the speech, or portions of it at YouTube or even the ESPN page about the Dickie V induction. Although most people know Dick Vitale because of his commentating and commercials, few know that he was, at one point, a player and a coach. He worked for the Detroit Pistons, and coached a little college, too, at the University of Detroit and Rutgers.

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Posted in General on September 22, 2008

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