http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=4&u=/nm/20040402/en_nm/people_summerall_dcLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Legendary sports broadcaster Pat Summerall has been taken to a Florida hospital to await a liver transplant, a family spokesman said on Friday.
Summerall, who entered a rehabilitation program in 1992 to deal with an alcohol problem, was hospitalized in Texas before being taken earlier this week to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, to await the transplant.
"Pat is open about the past and accepts that his alcoholism is the reason he is in the hospital today," his wife, Cheri, said in a statement.
"Although this month marks his 12th year of sobriety, alcoholism is a progressive disease, and the damage to his liver reached the point where a transplant is the only option for survival," she said.
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