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Old 07-12-2016, 11:59 AM
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This speech transcends sports! Touching and funny!

Jimmy Valvano gave a speech when he received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award when he was dying of cancer.

It is very uplifting and considered ESPN's finest moment.

Please watch to the end.

Jimmy's 1993 ESPY Speech - YouTube
Thanks for posting this 2BNTV as I have lost a few family members to cancer of some kind or another. And some of the other members have battled with it over the years.

I would guess pretty much every member of TOTV has family members who have died from cancer or who have fought this dreaded disease.