Nebraska honors Greg Sharpe's cancer fight with patch on baseball hats
The longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Greg Sharpe, recently announced the sad news that he has been diagnosed with cancer. He’s been thankful for the support in the past few days from all Cornhusker fans, friends, family, and fellow co-workers.
And on Wednesday evening, Nebraska baseball decided to join in on supporting him, honoring Sharpe with a special patch on their hats.
Greg Sharpe announces cancer diagnosis
A few weeks ago on Sports Nightly on the Huskers Radio Network, Sharpe took some time to speak about his diagnosis at length with the audience.
“Tonight, my least favorite topic, it’s me,” Sharpe said. “And I don’t like to make much about myself, but I’ll be honest with you, I’m going to tell you something. I thought I wasn’t sure I wanted to really tell what I don’t want to tell it to. I’m not sure I wanted to let it out. But sometimes when you have news, and you don’t kind of confront it, a lot of rumors, innuendos, get thrown out there and half truths. And then in the end people are like ‘Well, why didn’t you just say it? Why didn’t you come out and tell us?’
“Bottom line is I have been diagnosed with cancer. Found out a week or two ago. And so we’re getting close to the point where treatment will be necessary. And so it’s going to disrupt my work here on Sports Nighty. Probably some baseball broadcasts and all that and that agitates me because this season is going so so well. So much fun being around that team. But we’ve got a great team of doctors that are putting together the plan.”
The longtime play by play voice of the Nebraska Cornhuskers plans on being ready for football season and will do as many baseball games and radio shows as he can. He revealed that the only time he’ll be missing broadcasts will be because of treatment or overwhelming symptoms.
Sharpe also revealed the cancer is in the pancreatic region of the body.
“I’m not going to get too deep into the weeds, I’ve kind of had symptoms for a couple of months,” Sharpe revealed a few weeks ago. “It’s in the pancreatic region of the body, is kind of where we’re looking at the treatment to begin but that’s, again, I don’t want to get down the medical path too much … And I know so many of you out there you have dealt with this either yourself or with a family member. And you know how disruptive it can be for your lives, for your family’s life. And man, my wife Amy has been a rock for the last month for me to lean on. And I’m so blessed to have somebody like her in my life and I’m sure those of you that have dealt with his know that you got to have that support system to kind of fight your way through this type of thing.”
On3’s Nick Kosko also contributed to this article.