Dick Vitale to be honored with Jimmy V Award at 2022 ESPYS

Dick Vitale, the longtime ESPN school basketball broadcaster and Corridor of Famer, would be the recipient of the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at this 12 months’s ESPYS.

Vitale, 82, introduced in August that he had undergone a number of surgical procedures to take away melanoma. In October, he introduced he had been identified with lymphoma. His chemotherapy remedy for lymphoma compelled the veteran broadcaster to step again from ESPN’s school basketball protection.

“The excellent news is that he does not consider something is life-threatening; nonetheless, Dr. [Steven] Zeitels says I’ve pre-cancerous Dysplasia on the vocal cords,” Vitale mentioned in a December assertion. “Backside line is I must relaxation them — my voice wants a T.O., BABY!”

Vitale has documented his most cancers journey on social media and in March appeared on the SEC match, the place he was acknowledged for his contributions to the game, the league and his struggle in opposition to most cancers.

Vitale introduced in April that he’s cancer-free.

The Jimmy V Award is known as after the late Jim Valvano, Vitale’s former broadcast accomplice at ESPN who gave a famously impassioned speech about residing with most cancers when he was honored with the Arthur Ashe Braveness Award on the first ESPYS in 1993. Vitale offered Valvano on the awards present that evening.

“After I obtained the decision from [ESPN president] Jimmy Pitaro about receiving this award, I used to be completely blown away,” Vitale mentioned in an announcement Monday. “I keep in mind that day nearly 30 years in the past, once I stood on stage on the first ESPYS, launched Jimmy V and witnessed him give that unimaginable speech all of us keep in mind. I mirrored on his speech many instances throughout my seven month battle — ‘do not hand over, do not ever hand over Dickie V’ — and I remembered my mom and father, who taught me by no means to consider in ‘cannot’. Jimmy V was particular and his legacy lives on. I’m so grateful to obtain this super award in his honor.”

The Jimmy V Award was first given out on the 2007 ESPYS. The award present helps increase consciousness and funds for the V Basis for Most cancers Analysis, the charity based by Valvano.

This 12 months’s ESPYS can be broadcast stay July 20 at eight p.m. on ABC.

Info from The Related Press was used on this report.