Dick Vitale

Eva Longoria sends Twitter love to ex Tony Parker's Spurs

2013-06-07 16:14:00

Eva Longoria may have ended her marriage with Tony Parker, but that doesn't mean she's ended her relationship with the San Antonio Spurs. Now an innocuous tweet from the "Desperate Housewives" alum has her followers questioning their current...

Boston Marathon bombings elicit reactions from sports world

2013-04-15 14:33:00

Reactions on Twitter have been coming in quickly since a pair of explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday killed two people and injured dozens of others. Members of the sports world have been checking in with heartfelt statements....

Watch Eddie the sea otter dunk a basketball [Video]

2013-02-21 08:53:00

Meet Eddie the sea otter. If you're truly a sports fan, he's about to become your favorite creature, because Eddie can dunk a basketball on a hoop in his pool at the Oregon Zoo. That's right. Check out the video above. Eddie, who was a rescue from the...

Boys' basketball: Mater Dei finishes third at City of Palms Classic

2010-12-24 04:35:58

Awesome, baby! Basketball analyst Dick Vitale reupped at ESPN through 2015

2011-01-12 16:34:49

What They're Saying On Twitter About George Blaney

2013-06-13 15:29:29

Jeff Adrien: Congratulations to Coach Blaney on his retirement. One of the best teachers to the game of basketball. @Adrien4 Dom Amore, Courant: Fun George Blaney fact: he played more games for Knicks (35) than Jeremy Lin (25). @AmoreCourant Ed...

Coming together to help feed the hungry

2013-06-07 02:08:00

Huge thanks to the people of Niles and Buchanan for their generous response to the annual Postal Food Drive held May 11. The thoughtfulness will help feed hundreds of less fortunate families. This would not have been successful without the Herculean...

UK Basketball: John Calipari will be the keynote speaker at the Henry Iba Citizen Athlete Awards on June 3

2013-05-23 05:42:00

Kentucky coach John Calipari will be the keynote speaker at the Henry Iba Citizen Athlete Awards on June 3 in Tulsa. “We have had the big names of college basketball as well as baseball and football here,” said Greg Kach, chairman of the...

The Bradenton Herald Alan Dell column

2013-05-19 01:04:02

If Andrew Wiggins was at the Dick Vitale Gala, he likely would've pointed to Bill Self as the reason he chose Kansas. It's all about keeping things in perspective. Despite being the nation's top-rated basketball recruit and the Naismith High School...

UConn's Rodney Purvis To Take Practices Very Seriously

2013-05-16 15:15:21

Rodney Purvis is in his first week at UConn and his first game is 18 months away, but he is already in attack mode. "I kind of reframed everything in my mind," Purvis said Thursday after a one-hour workout with new teammate Ryan Boatright and assistant...

Chris Collins accepts NU challenge

2013-03-27 21:02:00

Chris Collins dined in the Chicago area Wednesday with Northwestern President Morton Schapiro, sources told the Tribune. Here's guessing they raised a glass and spoke of their sweet expectations -- to end the Wildcats' 75-year run of missing the NCAA...

Group Analysis: ESPN Experts Sort Through The Chaos Of March Madness

2013-03-21 16:54:00

Digger Phelps has a million of'em. … No, really. One-liners? A million of 'em. Stories about the glory days when he coached Notre Dame? A million of them. Four-by-six cards with notes, color-coded with highlighters? Hundreds of them, at least....

Advocate-Messenger sports editor Larry Vaught posed with ESPN's Dick Vitale during the NCAA basketball tournament earlier this year.

2012-11-30 16:39:00

Fans cheer for the Florida State Seminoles along with announcer Dick Vitale before the start of the match against the Duke Blue Devils at the Donald L. Tucker Center.

2012-02-23 00:00:00

'IT'S AWESOME BABY!' ESPN analyst Dick Vitale turns 72 today.

2010-06-09 06:12:11