{"id":384755,"date":"2021-12-23T02:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T02:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:59:30","slug":"dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dick Vitale won&#8217;t let cancer win this fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d2529f65\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d2529f65\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight\/#%E2%80%98Biggest_Hurt_of_My_Life\" >\u2018Biggest Hurt of My Life\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight\/#A_Familiar_Fight\" >A Familiar Fight<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Dick Vitale won&#8217;t let cancer win this fight<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Ian O'Connor\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dick Vitale invites you to sit ringside for this heavyweight bout, on his dime, because he knows it is going to be a doozy. He posts pictures with the men and women working his corner \u2014 the doctors, nurses, and priests charged to help him \u2014 because he wants people to see that nobody beats cancer alone, not even one of the most indomitable forces in American sports.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you saw and heard on TV all these years, Vitale was never merely your eccentric uncle who clowned and carnival barked his way to fortune and fame. Richie from Jersey might not have had Hollywood looks or Harvard brains, but he could impose his will on almost anything, including cancer, which he has battled for decades on behalf of so many sick and defenseless kids.<\/p>\n<p>Vitale picked a fight with the disease, raising millions upon millions for pediatric centers, and it was inevitable the disease would punch back. Now he is an 82-year-old lymphoma patient, in the middle of a six-month cycle of chemotherapy and steroid treatments. He\u2019s scheduled to spend Christmas with his family in the Bahamas before returning to his Lakewood Ranch, Fla., home and his Sarasota hospital for his next chemo <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment. His goals are to live at least another seven years to see all of his five grandchildren graduate from college, and then to live another 11 years on top of that so he can broadcast an ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> at age 100.<\/p>\n<p>Bet against him at your own peril.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Biggest_Hurt_of_My_Life\"><\/span>\u2018Biggest Hurt of My Life\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The grandson of Italian immigrants, Richie from Jersey is one of the toughest guys from one of the toughest states. His parents had fifth-grade educations, but Richie said they had doctorates in love and a deep devotion to an honest day\u2019s work. His father, John, pressed coats in a factory and worked security in a mall, and after his mother, Mae, a seamstress, suffered a stroke, John brought home garments that his wife sewed in their cellar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-family-cancer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"dick vitale family mom dad\" class=\"wp-image-20587284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-family-cancer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-family-cancer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-family-cancer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dick Vitale with his parents, John and Mae.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy: Dick Vitale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mae set an example for her three kids by dragging her stroke-diminished leg on daily walks to church. She told Richie to ignore those in town who made fun of his blind left eye, which had drifted all over the place since he accidentally pierced it with a pencil as a boy. Richie was ashamed of how that eye made him look, but his mother assured him he had the heart to be whatever he wanted to be.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>He attended Seton Hall and taught middle school in blue-collar Garfield and took over whatever local team needed a coach. Vitale and friend Bob Stolarz assembled a group of eighth-grade football players, practiced for eight days and then beat the Garfield High freshmen when one of Richie\u2019s boys returned an interception 75 yards for a score. \u201cWe became heroes in town,\u201d Stolarz recalled. Richie coached a state-title team of teenage baseball players sponsored by a Garfield tire company, Benignos, the same extended family that produced WFAN host Joe. Vitale once ran out of pitchers at a tournament in Pennsylvania and had Stolarz give a kid from Nutley $10 in gas money to drive west and throw a two-hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Richie hustled his way into a high school head-coaching job at East Rutherford and put that town on the map five years before Giants Stadium opened and made it an international dateline. He won a second straight state championship in 1971, when his 6-foot-10 center, Les Cason, the nation\u2019s top-ranked player, blocked a shot in the final seconds at Princeton, down one to Gloucester City, and started a fast break finished by a winning Dwight Hall layup that gave the Wildcats a 28-0 season for the ages. \u201cThe locker room was a madhouse,\u201d recalled Hall. \u201cCoach Vitale was jumping up and down.\u201d Richie ended up on a fire truck in the day-after parade.<\/p>\n<p>His superstar, Cason, was a Kevin Durant-type player before his time, a big man with a handle and a jump shot. Jerry Tarkanian signed him to play for Long Beach State, but the kid was an academic mess and already adrift with a partying crowd. Vitale had his own demons \u2014 bleeding ulcers that reportedly required him to keep a carton of milk next to him on the bench, and an all-consuming pursuit of success that cost him his first marriage \u2014 but his teams responded to his approach. \u201cCoach Vitale was the same persona in high school that he is now,\u201d Hall said. \u201cGreat motivator. He was going 100 miles per hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-jim-valvano-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Broadcasters Jim Valvano and Dick Vitale relaxing at Vitale's home on November 20, 1992 in Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-20587370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-jim-valvano-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-jim-valvano-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-jim-valvano-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Broadcasters Jim Valvano and Dick Vitale relaxing at Vitale\u2019s home on November 20, 1992.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cason would say many years later that his coach sat him down one day in the bleachers and told him, \u201cLeslie, I\u2019m going to make it with or without you. You\u2019re not going to make it if you don\u2019t change.\u201d Even Tark couldn\u2019t get his recruit eligible at Long Beach. Cason played juco ball at San Jacinto in Texas before Vitale, then a Rutgers assistant, helped land him a spot at the state university. Cason averaged 4.9 points per game in 27 appearances, then dropped out of school and \u2014 after flunking an ABA tryout set up by Vitale \u2014 dropped out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>He would live a New York City life of homelessness, drug addiction and jail time for dealing cocaine in Washington Square Park. Vitale would try to intervene, try to meet with his former center, try to send him money through an inter<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ry, all to no avail. Before he died of complications from AIDS in 1997, at age 43, Cason said his high school coach \u201cdid everything he could for me.\u201d Cason\u2019s best friend, Hall, confirmed that nobody could have done more than Coach Vitale did to try to help someone who wouldn\u2019t be helped.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle-hospital.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"dick vitale hospital nurse cancer\" class=\"wp-image-20587288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle-hospital.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle-hospital.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle-hospital.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dick Vitale documents his battle with cancer, often sharing photographs of the nurses and doctors helping him fight.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy: Dick Vitale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Long after Richie became Dick, and then a wildly successful University of Detroit coach, he remained haunted by his failure to reach his greatest player. \u201cWhat happened to Leslie,\u201d Vitale would say, \u201cis the biggest hurt in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But just as he\u2019d promised Cason, Vitale made it to the big time \u2014 the NBA and Madison Square Garden \u2014 in the late 1970s. He coached the Detroit Pistons against the Knicks, and at the time Vitale was making a hundred grand a year, driving a team-issued blue Cadillac and wearing thick glasses and bright and ugly plaid slacks. His family was in the Garden crowd that night in 1979 when his Pistons gave back 17 points of their 18-point lead. The Knicks\u2019 Toby Knight stole the inbounds pass and dunked the winner home with two seconds left. Outside the Detroit locker room, Vitale twice slammed his hand against the wall. \u201cThis is the 17th game we\u2019ve lost in the last three minutes,\u201d he told The New York Times. \u201cI\u2019ve earned the salary of my three-year contract already.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>He was fired a dozen games into his second season by Pistons owner Bill Davidson, who pulled up to his home in a limo and blitzed him with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. Vitale cried. Like in high school and college ball, he had been a manic sideline presence who couldn\u2019t sleep after defeats. \u201cNobody knows the pain and suffering that losing brings me,\u201d he said then.<\/p>\n<p>A TV executive who had been impressed with Vitale\u2019s personality would call and ask him to be a color man for a new cable operation called ESPN. His dear second wife, Lorraine, talked him into it, and on Dec. 5, 1979, Vitale made a few hundred bucks broadcasting DePaul-Wisconsin. He had no idea what the hell he was doing, and it didn\u2019t matter. The same personality that covered for his shortcomings became his weapon of mass-media destruction.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Familiar_Fight\"><\/span>A Familiar Fight<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When I was a teenager, Vin Scully did not make me fall in love with major league baseball. Howard Cosell did not make me fall in love with pro football.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Vitale made me fall in love with college basketball. No sport has ever needed an over-caffeinated advocate more than college hoops needed him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-inline-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300\" alt=\"dick vitale yearbook photo\" class=\"wp-image-20587289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=450 450w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=150 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-yearbook.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy: Dick Vitale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He called my home one bygone day to complain about something I wrote, and when my wife answered and he excitedly started to identify himself, Tracey cut him off. \u201cYeah, I know who you are,\u201d she said. Everyone knew Dick Vitale\u2019s voice. He hated being criticized, and loved to be loved. That\u2019s why his high school yearbook described him as \u201ceverybody\u2019s buddy.\u201d He would spend his adult life sending friends and relative strangers signed books and basketballs, inviting them to games and leaving them phone messages for their birthdays and bar mitzvahs.<\/p>\n<p>You know how things played out for him over four decades-plus in TV. Though many older people like to hang around college students to feel young, college students like to hang around Vitale to feel younger. They clamor for his autograph, chant his name, shout his most popular Dickie V-isms and bodysurf him through their crowds. They believe he is Awesome, baby, and never with a lower-case \u2018a\u2019. He became a world-famous commercial pitchman for products from A to Z, and he\u2019s even more synonymous with the game than Coach K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he never forgot us,\u201d said Stolarz, his old Garfield and East Rutherford assistant. \u201cHe kept us with him all these years,\u201d confirmed Hall, his point guard on those state title teams. The Wildcats still message with him and occasionally visit with him. Basketball brotherhoods die hard.<\/p>\n<p>But Vitale\u2019s legacy is not defined by the game, or even by his Hall-of-Fame run at ESPN. It\u2019s defined by the war he\u2019s waged against cancer since the 1993 death of his former colleague, Jim Valvano, as a board member of The V Foundation hoping to raise $7 million at his annual Sarasota gala for children in May to put his event total at more than $50 million raised for pediatric cancer research.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"dick vitale wife lorraine\" class=\"wp-image-20587285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dick-vitale-cancer-battle.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dick Vitale and his wife of 50+ years, Lorraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy: Dick Vitale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vitale has prayed at the bedsides of these children, and danced at celebrations for their recoveries, and wept at their memorial services. He was there for a boy who endured 1,200 doses of chemo, and for another who survived four bouts with brain cancer, and now those children are redirecting the love back to Vitale, sending him messages of hope. \u201cThey inspire me big time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vitale truly understands their struggle now. Two months after being treated for melanoma, he was originally told he had bile duct cancer before he got a lucky bounce with a less ominous diagnosis of lymphoma. Vitale posted a video saying he was overwhelmed by the tidal wave of support. \u201cI\u2019m going to win this battle,\u201d he pledged. \u201cTake that to the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>He made it back in November to call UCLA-Gonzaga in Vegas, where he broke down after partner Dave O\u2019Brien introduced the man who needs no introduction. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m sitting here,\u201d Vitale said. \u201cThis is a really big thrill for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working the Villanova-Baylor game on Dec. 12, Vitale sobbed after the Baylor crowd gave him a standing O. Doctors had cleared him to work Louisville-Kentucky on Wednesday before that game was wiped out by positive COVID-19 tests at Louisville, giving Vitale an extended break until Auburn-Alabama on Jan. 11. That might be a good thing. Vitale was treated recently for heavy inflammation and hemorrhaging in his vocal cords, and doctors wanted him to rest his one-of-a-kind voice. But one way or another, he will be in Durham, N.C., on Jan. 14 to watch his twin grandsons Connor and Jake Krug play tennis for Duke, and then to call the Blue Devils\u2019 basketball game against N.C. State the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Life is still so, so good. His daughters, Terri and Sherri, and their families live five minutes away, and everyone made it to Maui last July to celebrate Dick and Lorraine\u2019s 50th wedding anniversary. Vitale lives in a Florida mansion and has a playground in East Rutherford and a college court in Detroit named in his honor. \u201cNot bad for a one-eyed, bald-headed guy from North Jersey,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Now doctors are trying to make Vitale cancer-free before his next gala in the spring. He will pray to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, because that was the prayer card his mother gave him as a boy, the card he forever kept in his back pocket. Never mind that Richie Vitale has been everything but a lost cause.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been the long-reigning people\u2019s champ, and it\u2019s a beautiful thing to see all those he rallied around now rallying around him, lifting him, making him stronger, letting him know they won\u2019t let him fight this fight alone.<\/p>\n<p>So Richie from Jersey, tough guy from a tough state, will not be beaten. In fact, it\u2019s going to be a blowout. Cancer is completely overmatched this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Time to warm up the bus, baby.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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