ESPN’s Dick Vitale says he has vocal cord cancer

Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale said Wednesday that he has vocal cord cancer and will need six weeks of radiation to treat it.

“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the Fall,” Vitale wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.

This is an update on my meeting today with Dr ZEITELS. Though I was disappointed with the pathology report, I plan on…