NOTEBOOK: Steve Prohm Dickie V impression is awesome with a capital A, baby!
CHRIS CONETZKEY Jun 23, 2016 | 8:12 pm
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0 wordsBusiness Record Insider, The Insider NotebookYou might have seen that legendary ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale was in town this week, visiting David Stark’s Blank Children’s Hospital (watch theKCCI video), raising money for cancer research and spreading his youthful energy (and iPads) to those most in need. Vitale was in town because of a relationship with Craig and JoEllen Mettille, who were hosting their 380 Foundation’s sixth annual golf and awards benefit dinner to help raise money for Vitale’s V Foundation for Cancer Research. The 380 Foundation is a nonprofit offshoot of 380 Companies, Mettille’s disaster cleanup firm. Vitale has been a part of all six of the foundation’s annual events. On Wednesday night at the event generously hosted and attended by Dennis Albaugh at his private golf course — Talons of Tuscany — wrestling legend Dan Gable and Iowa State basketball coach Steve Prohm made speeches along with Vitale. Prohm began his speech by saying he grew up as a kid pretending to be Vitale. And he ended his speech, to much applause and laughter, backing it up with a spot-on impression of Vitale that truly was, in the words of Vitale, awesome with a capital A, baby! Something tells me at some point ESPN’s going to make him bust that out on national TV.