ESPN has extended Dick Vitale’s contract through the 2023-24 season.
Vitale says he wants to call a game when he is 100 years old.
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UPDATE: ESPN is extending Dick Vitale through the 2023-2024 college basketball season.
Dick Vitale talks about one day calling a college basketball game at age 100. The 81-year old announcer is still on track, scoring a contract extension with ESPN that will take him through the 2023-2024 college basketball season.
That would take the legendary men’s college basketball analyst through his 45th year at ESPN. But “Dickie V” feels as young as ever, thanks to singles tennis and a regular workout regimen. He’s poised to call the Houston vs. Baylor Final Four game and the NCAA Championship for ESPN International.
“I really want to keep going. I feel great,” said Vitale, who called ESPN’s first-ever NCAA basketball game in 1979. “I’ve said this 5 million times: If the day ever comes I don’t recall names, I can’t recall information I need to share, I’ll be the first guy to pick up the phone and say the party’s over. But I feel better than ever. In fact, people tell me you sound more enthusiastic than ever.”
