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Vince Cellini | |
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| Born | Vincent Robert Cellini (1959-06-10)June 10, 1959 (age 66) 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 atNBA TV andTNT Sports.
Cellini was a lifeguard at Grovewood, a city pool on the east side of Cleveland.
In 1981, Cellini graduated from theCollege of Wooster inWooster,Ohio, with abachelor's degree incommunications. Cellini playedtight end on the college'sfootball 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'sWJW-TV.[1] He also hosted a sports talk radio show onWWWE Radio in Cleveland.
In 1989, Cellini leftWJW-TV to join CNN Sports. In 1996, Cellini earned aCableACE Award for his work onCNN Sports Tonight, which he co-hosted withVan Earl Wright. He also hosted a late-night program "Calling All Sports" from 1994 to 1995. He left the program and later joined theTNT Sunday Night NFL broadcasting team.
Cellini joined the network in January 2003 after a long stint at the now defunctCNNSI network. During his tenure withinTed Turner's company, Cellini also worked onCNN itself at times, and was working alongside anchorCarol Lin at the CNN Center inAtlanta,Georgia, at the time of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks.
Cellini's first day on The Golf Channel was January 13, 2003, when he assumed hosting duties fromPeter Kessler onGolf Talk. The first guest Cellini interviewed on that night was golferArnold 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", a2+1⁄2-hour primetime lineup of shows. In February 2005, Cellini, along with fellow Golf Channel colleagueStephanie Sparks, began hosting the network'sreality 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 hostedThe Big Break IV: USA vs. Europe, which aired in the Fall of 2005. Cellini and Sparks returned to host again on February 7, 2006, forThe 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.
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 onSports 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" forNascar.com, as of August 18, 2011.
Cellini has covered thePGA Championship since 2011 forTNT.
Since 2010, he has been co-host ofHawks Live show with Mike Glenn. This half-hour show precedes and then follows NBAAtlanta Hawks Telecasts onSportSouth. Beginning in 2011, he has also been co-hosting a local Cleveland-area golf show called "Par Three Shootout".
Cellini is married with three sons.[2] His brother, Nick Cellini, is asports radio personality inAtlanta, Georgia withWCNN (680 The Fan).[3]
In November 2021, Cellini was arrested inCobb County, Georgia fordriving under the influence after causing an accident by driving on the wrong side of the road. The victim of the accident was awarded a $15 million settlement.[4]