{"id":69912,"date":"2013-11-07T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=69912"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:46:44","slug":"sarasota-herald-tribute-cancer-survivor-tim-berg-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/07\/sarasota-herald-tribute-cancer-survivor-tim-berg-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Herald-Tribune covers cancer survivor Tim Berg &#8217;14 in Vitale Tennis Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates&#8217; No. 1 tennis player, Tim Berg &#8217;14, is back home in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., this weekend competing in an intercollegiate tennis tournament fundraiser hosted by ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69918\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/tim-berg-MTennis_4820-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69918\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69918 \" alt=\"Tim Berg '14 of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., plays at the No. 1 spot for Bates men's tennis team. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/tim-berg-MTennis_4820-web-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/tim-berg-MTennis_4820-web-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/tim-berg-MTennis_4820-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/tim-berg-MTennis_4820-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Berg &#8217;14 of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., plays at the No. 1 spot for Bates men&#8217;s tennis team. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tournament, featuring mostly NCAA Division I players, has a bit more meaning for Berg than others, says columnist Mic Huber of the <em>Sarasota Herald-Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seven years ago, Berg underwent surgery and chemotherapy to treat a cancerous tumor behind his left eye. Vitale, a fellow Lakewood Ranch resident, learned of Berg&#8217;s battle back then and today remains a fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me the chills, because I remember the whole scenario and what he went through,\u201d Vitale tells the <em>Herald-Tribune<\/em>. \u201cIt is going to be great, him playing in this tournament. &#8230; You can\u2019t keep this kid down. He is resilient. He is tough-minded. I don\u2019t know what he will do in tennis but it doesn\u2019t matter because he is going to make it in the game of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the Lakewood Ranch Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament go to the V Foundation for Cancer Research, established by Jim Valvano in 1993 shortly before his death from cancer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20131106\/COLUMNIST\/131109765\/?p=all&amp;tc=pgall&amp;tc=ar\">View story from the <em>Sarasota Herald Tribune<\/em> of Nov. 6, 2013 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Berg &#8217;14 is back home in Florida this weekend competing in a tournament fundraiser hosted by Dick Vitale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":69918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-69912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69912"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions\/69921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}