Dick Vitale

Swirsky's bombast - modelled on over-the-top American models such as Dick Vitale - filled his broadcast to brimming.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Bruce Dowbiggin 2010

He may know better at this point, but Virginia Tech Coach Seth Greenberg couldn't hide his smile as ESPN announcer Dick Vitale began ranting during a postgame interview that there was no longer any doubt about the Hokies' NCAA tournament chances, that "You're in, baby!"

Even after Duke win, Greenberg realizes Virginia Tech still has work to do 2011

Or the four-time national champions are to be hated because they're perpetually "overrated" and "get all the calls" -- something that has yet to be quantified, but which seems to stem from a fuzzy conspiracy involving the referees, the Selection Committee, Dick Vitale, and, I think, Oswald's ghost.

The Racial Biases of Duke Hating 2011

High-school wrestling plays a big part in the film, but athletics are a means, not an end, to a story that's elegantly directed, expertly acted, laugh-out-loud funny, but very much "in the moment," as they say in sports: A hobbled economy has the characters in a half-nelson; money haunts the proceedings the way Dick Vitale haunts the Final Four; characters make as many questionable decisions as the umpires in the 2009 playoffs.

'Win Win' 1, Sports Clichés 0 John Anderson 2011

"Their offensive efficiency was not there," Dick Vitale said on Tuesday, flying off the handle once again.

What Every Basketball Fan Will Miss About Butler Jason Gay 2011

"The Big 5 is, without a doubt, one of the great rivalries in college basketball," said basketball analyst Dick Vitale, who remembers hitchhiking to The Palestra in the early '60s to see Princeton, with a young star named Bill Bradley, play Penn.

Philly's Big 5, in a Class by Itself Mark Yost 2010

"The Big 5 is, without a doubt, one of the great rivalries in college basketball," said basketball analyst Dick Vitale, who remembers hitchhiking to The Palestra in the early '60s to see Princeton, with a young star named Bill Bradley, play Penn.

Philly's Big 5, in a Class by Itself Mark Yost 2010

We're still clammy with Winter Olympics fever — we spent all of Saturday teaching our cat the Nordic combined; he's an expert at the jumping, not so deft at the skiing — and now college basketball's 65-team OCD avalanche, which starts March 16, is running straight at us like Dick Vitale after 14 espressos.

Wait, What Happened to February? Jason Gay 2010

* Finally, some good news if you're a Dick Vitale fan.

Playing catchup before the final preseason scrimmage 2010

"The Big 5 is, without a doubt, one of the great rivalries in college basketball," said basketball analyst Dick Vitale, who remembers hitchhiking to The Palestra in the early '60s to see Princeton, with a young star named Bill Bradley, play Penn.

Philly's Big 5, in a Class by Itself Mark Yost 2010