I don’t think I can take another season of Dick Vitale calling the premier college basketball games. Tonight, his inane incessant chatter about everything but the Duke-Marquette game drove me to mute the volume on my TV.

      Okay, I’ll start by saying that I respect the enthusiasm he has brought to college basketball. I almost respect his knowledge of the game and his development of his own style. But he does three things that make him unbearable.

      1. He spends way too much time talking about matters other than the game – other sports, long time friends of his that nobody has heard of, other games, other players.

      2. He devotes a significant portion of each game gushing over the coaches and the star players of each time. Since I’ve never ever heard him say that a coach was a “bad coach” or that a team's performance was the result of bad coaching, the incessant praise for the coach is meaningless.

       3. Finally, he just talks too damn much. Way too much repetition of the same point over and over again. He seems to think that people tune in to hear his opinions on everything. Never, never, never does he allow a moment of silence. The second the play-by-play guy concludes this sentence, Vitale is off to the races.

    Yet, for all this, he is ESPN’s signature color man and the ESPN producers make no effort to rein him in. So he must have his audience. I just can’t figure out who it is.

the voice of the Seminoles and the Bucs deliberately phonies up stuff like recovered fumbles (eg, the Noles have it! when they don't) interceptions (the Bucs intercepted! when they didn't), receptions (Great catch! when it was dropped) and possession changes (the Bucs got it! when they don't) to -in his own mind- make it more interesting and exciting for the fan-It doesn't-1rob....Just tell the effin truth, Gene.....OUT

Who will be the color man if they get rid of this crowd. You guys are to damn hard to please. Shut up and watch the game. And by the way turn the sound up, I don't want any of you to miss one word. LOL

Cossell, these guy are legends, I am watching miami orlando game and I see 2 hot blondes in first row man I want these hunnies, jl come to nyc will party, my man jl in house.