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Dick Vitales fight against cancer is nearing a major milestone. Vitale expects to top the $10 million mark with his eighth annual celebrity gala in Sarasota, Fla., on Friday night. The event will honour former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, former Connecticut basketball coach/cancer survivor Jim Calhoun, and Kansas basketball coach Bill Self. The gala raises money for the V Foundation in honour of the late Jim Valvano. Net proceeds go to pediatric cancer research. "It should be really, really special," Vitale said in a phone interview Thursday. "It has gone way beyond my dreams." More than 70 sports celebrities are scheduled to attend, including Florida coach Billy Donovan, Indiana coach Tom Crean, Kentucky coach John Calipari, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, Miami coach Jim Larranaga, Villanova coach Jay Wright and Florida State coaches Jimbo Fisher (football) and Leonard Hamilton (basketball). The guest list also includes former major leaguer Gary Sheffield, former NFL running back Ricky Watters and 2000 Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke. Vitale has a few special guests planned, too. He will have Michigan State junior forward Adreian Payne and his friend, 7-year-old Lacey Holsworth, in attendance. Holsworth has cancer and is scheduled to have a bone-marrow transplant soon. She has become close with Payne over the past year and met Vitale before the Indiana-Michigan State game in February. "She just got clearance to join us," Vitale said. "I guarantee there wont be a dry eye in the place." Vitale also is flying in the parents of Justin Miller, who died April 3, less than three weeks shy of his 21st birthday and after a five-year battle with epithelioid sarcoma. Miller continued playing the drums even after having his dominant arm amputated in 2011. Vitale will present Millers parents with a grant in Justins name for $250,000. "Nothing pleases me more now," Vitale said. "Im selfish. I have five grandchildren. Im about to go watch the kids play tennis. Thats what every kid should be doing. Instead, we have so many doing chemo and radiation. Its just not fair." In total, Vitale will have 11 families of cancer survivors, including eight of the survivors, on hand at the Ritz-Carlton. Everyone there should witness a record-breaking night for the event, topping the $1.8 million raised last year and reaching the $10 million milestone over eight years. "People have been great to me," Vitale said. "Ive got goose-bumps thinking about it."Fake NCAA Jerseys . The Lightning are 2-0 so far on a four-game road trip, giving the club five straight wins as the guest and improving Tampas away record this season to 11-8-2. Replica NCAA Jerseys . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. https://www.chinajerseysncaa.us/ . 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Liverpool 6-1 Watford I am pretty sure early in the season the other teams knew already we were not the worst team in the Premier League, Klopp said.I shouldnt sound too confident but I have no idea what they think and I dont care.We try to do our job, we have done it until now and we have to do it in the next few weeks, which will be very intensive.We dont have to think about it, what they do, we have to think about what we do.What we do in December, January, February is preparing and creating a basis for the rest of the season. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed Adam Lallana has had a scan on a groin injury Nothing is decided.ddddddddddddTeams maybe want to be champion but end up sixth because they played a good season but so many other teams played a very good season.Philippe Coutinho is a doubt for Saturdays trip to Southampton, having been busy with Brazil during the international break. But Klopp is not looking for excuses, adding: Southampton is the next hurdle to jump over. Klopp says the club must create an atmosphere in which none of their star players want to leave. Whats momentum before the game?Lets try to do our best, lets try to play football, lets try to do what we spoke about, lets try to use what we saw when we prepared for the game and all that stuff.Momentum is not something you have to talk about before the game, so I dont think about it.Its the same situation for all the other teams too [regarding the international break].I only try to describe our situation because you asked about difficulties ahead of this game but its the same for all the teams, including Southampton.They have a lot of players who were on the road too so its no advantage, no disadvantage, its like it is.After international breaks, its a special situation. 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