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Craig Sager battling leukemia again

The Sports Xchange

March 29, 2015 at 7:16 pm.

Mar 29, 2014; Anaheim, CA, USA; TV sideline reporter Craig Sager during the second half in the finals of the west regional of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship tournament between the Arizona Wildcats and the Wisconsin Badgers at Honda Center. Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports

Turner Broadcasting sideline analyst Craig Sager’s leukemia re-emerged at some point last week, his son Craig Sage Jr. wrote on his Twitter account Sunday.

Last April, Sager took an absence from his position after he was diagnosed with the disease. Sager, 63, returned to his job in early March after he was cleared by his doctors.

“(Sager Sr.) is battling his newest set of obstacles, but unlike the first time, when everything was new, there is a blueprint in place and all focus is on one checkpoint at a time,” Sager Jr. wrote on his Twitter account. “(His) leukemia returned last week and he is undergoing treatment that will be much like this time last year when he got rounds of chemo and prepared his body for a bone marrow transplant.”

In last spring’s NBA playoffs, Sager Jr. filled in for his father at Game 1 of the San Antonio Spurs’ opening-round playoff series against the Mavericks. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has developed a reputation for losing his patience with reporters easily, wished Sager a speedy return during a touching interview with Sager Jr.

Last July, Sager Jr. competed in the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, less than 24 hours after he donated more than a liter of bone marrow to his father. It marked the first time the elder Sager missed the race in more than 30 years.

Earlier this month, Sager planned to travel to Nebraska to work on the sidelines during the Omaha subregional at the NCAA tournament. The popular broadcaster, though, had to call off the trip at the urging of his doctors.

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