SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (SNN TV) - Dick Vitale ends 2023 after three battles with cancer himself, and yet he begins 2024 trying to raise even more money for pediatric cancer research. He has a
05/10/2021
While many people know Dick Vitale for his long-running college basketball commentary on ESPN, what he considers even more important is his work raising money for pediatric cancer research. As Vitale told AA earlier this year, he’s “totally obsessed” with that effort. And the latest expression of that was the 16th annual Dick Vitale Gala, held Friday night in Sarasota, Florida, which saw Vitale raise $6.5 million, even more than the $5 million target he set. Here’s more on that from Doug Fernandes of
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
But with the pandemic forcing many to tighten their purse strings, and with reduced attendance at this year’s Gala cutting deep into the event’s bottom line a table of eight cost $10,000 Vitale had no choice but to turn up the heat.