College basketballs Dick Vitale & Michael Wilbon on Cancer

College basketballs Dick Vitale and Michael Wilbon standing up against prostate cancer.
Award-Winning Sports Analysts Discuss Why They Have Joined the Fight Against an Interruption in Many Mens Lives College basketballs top analyst Dick Vitale and award-winning sports columnist Michael Wilbon are standing up in the fight against prostate cancer.

Vitale and Wilbon are teaming up with The V Foundation®, ESPN and Stand Up To Cancer™ for a town hall event called Life: Interrupted. The duo talks about the ways and importance of managing prostate cancer risk. They also discuss their personal connections with prostate cancer -- from close friends and family members to dealing with a personal health scare.

The campaign and event are focused on helping men and their loved ones recognize the reality of prostate cancer:

*One in six American men will develop prostate cancer and one new case of prostate cancer is diagnosed every two and a half minutes this year
*There were more new prostate cancer cases than any other non-skin cancer among men in the United States during 2007
*Prostate cancer was the second leading cause of cancer death for American men in 2003

Talent/Guest: Dick Vitale College Basketball Analyst
Following a successful college and pro coaching career, Dick Vitale, college basketballs top analyst and ambassador, joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season. In 2008, Vitale received the sports ultimate honor when he was selected as an inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor. In addition, Vitale is on the board of directors of The V Foundation, has co-chaired with Mike Krzyzewski and John Saunders for the annual V Foundation Golf Classic and hosts an annual V Foundation Gala in Florida which gathers numerous celebrities to help raise money for cancer research. He also had a prostate cancer scare earlier this year.

Talent/Guest: Michael Wilbon - Sportswriter, columnist and co-host of Pardon the Interruption
Michael Wilbon, sports columnist for The Washington Post has covered 10 summer and winter Olympic Games, every Super Bowl and NBA Finals since 1987, and nearly every Final Four since 1982. Wilbon has co-hosted Pardon the Interruption on ESPN since 2001 along with fellow Post scribe Tony Kornheiser. Additionally, Wilbon suffered a minor heart attack on January 28, 2008, and underwent an emergency angioplasty at a hospital in Arizona. Doctors discovered a blockage in one of the main arteries to the heart. Prostate cancer has also had an impact in Wilbons life -- two of his uncles and his best friend have been diagnosed with the disease.

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[mdmaynard2]

Thanks for the video

[blacklannmuzik1]

Thanx 4 this great video. God bless these 2. Let's continue 2 fight 4 a cure!!!

The B.L.A.C.K.