Vince Cellini

Vince Cellini
Vince Cellini
Born	Vincent Robert Cellini; June 10, 1959 (age 65); Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	College of Wooster (BA)
Employer	TNT Sports

Vincent Robert Cellini (/tʃəˈliːni/; born June 10, 1959) is an American sports broadcaster for radio and television, currently working at NBA TV and TNT Sports.

Early life and career

Cellini was a lifeguard at Grovewood, a city pool on the east side of Cleveland.

In 1981, Cellini graduated from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, with a bachelor's degree in communications. Cellini played tight end on the college's football team. He set three team records: most touchdowns in a season and in a career, and yards per catch in a season.

In 1982, Cellini began working as a sports anchor and reporter at Cleveland's WJW-TV.^[1] He also hosted a sports talk radio show on WWWE Radio in Cleveland.

CNN/Turner Sports

In 1989, Cellini left

CNN Sports Tonight, which he co-hosted with Van Earl Wright. He also hosted a late-night program "Calling All Sports" from 1994 to 1995. He left the program and later joined the TNT

Sunday Night NFL broadcasting team.

Cellini joined the network in January 2003 after a long stint at the now defunct

September 11, 2001 attacks

.

The Golf Channel

Cellini's first day on The Golf Channel was January 13, 2003, when he assumed hosting duties from

Golf Talk. The first guest Cellini interviewed on that night was golfer Arnold Palmer, who, along with Joseph Gibbs, co-founded The Golf Channel in 1995. Cellini's other Golf Channel duties include anchoring the network's flagship news show, Golf Central, and hosting "Top Shelf Wednesday", a 21⁄2-hour primetime lineup of shows. In February 2005, Cellini, along with fellow Golf Channel colleague Stephanie Sparks, began hosting the network's reality television competition show, The Big Break, with their tenure as hosts beginning with the show's third season, The Big Break III: Ladies Only. They also hosted The Big Break IV: USA vs. Europe, which aired in the Fall of 2005. Cellini and Sparks returned to host again on February 7, 2006, for The Big Break V: Hawaii

, a second "ladies only" edition. Cellini left The Golf Channel in July 2007, then rejoined the channel the following January. According to different internet sources, including Golfweek.com, his contract, which expired in 2009, was not renewed after much negotiations.

Return to Turner Sports

Cellini serves as a full-time host for NBA TV's GameTime and a collection of online programs across Turner Sports' digital properties. A longtime cable sports veteran, Cellini was a former anchor on Sports Tonight and received a Cable ACE Award for his work in 1996.

Cellini is the host of mini-shows titled "Fantasy Showdown" and "The Preview Show" for

Nascar.com

, as of August 18, 2011.

Cellini has covered the PGA Championship since 2011 for TNT.

Other work

Since 2010, he has been co-host of Hawks Live show with Mike Glenn. This half-hour show precedes and then follows NBA

SportSouth

. Beginning in 2011, he has also been co-hosting a local Cleveland-area golf show called "Par Three Shootout".

Personal

Cellini is married with three sons.

References

^ Morona, Joey (June 25, 2018). "35 memorable TV and radio sports broadcasters from Cleveland's past". cleveland.com. Retrieved July 17, 2023.

External links

TBS Superstation: NBA at the Wayback Machine (archived December 24, 1997)
Vince Cellini at
IMDb

[1] Morona, Joey (June 25, 2018). "35 memorable TV and radio sports broadcasters from Cleveland's past". cleveland.com. Retrieved July 17, 2023.

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