Dick Vitale’s planned return to the broadcast booth is being put on hold after an accident that created “near-term physical limitations,” ESPN said Saturday. The accident, which the 85-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster said he suffered at his home in Florida, is not related to the four cancer battles he’s had for the past three and a half years.

Iconic college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale is postponing his return to the broadcast booth after suffering an accident at his Florida home. On Friday, ESPN had announced that Vitale would make his return to the broadcast for next Saturday's Duke-Wake Forest game.

Dick Vitale’s return to broadcasting following cancer treatments will be delayed after the ESPN college basketball analyst had an accident at his Florida home.

The Hall of Fame broadcaster will call his first game in nearly 20 months when he works the Duke-Wake Forest game on ESPN.

Dick Vitale will grace the ESPN airwaves to call his first game in almost two years, week after the college basketball icon announced he is cancer-free.

Dick Vitale is back and it’s awesome, baby! ESPN’s Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame broadcaster will return to the air for the first time since 2023 to call a game between Duke and Wake Forest on Jan. 25. The game will air on ESPN at 4:30 p.m.

Vitale has been with ESPN since 1979, calling ESPN’s first-ever NCAA game. He’s called over 1000 games in his career and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.