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Quint Elroy Kessenich ( ; born November 22, 1967) is an American sportscaster for ABC and ESPN television covering lacrosse, basketball, football, hockey, wrestling and horse racing since 1993.
He got his writing debut with a horse racing newspaper called The Saratoga Special,thisishorseracing.com writing for brothers Joe and Sean Clancy in the famed horse racing town of Saratoga Springs, New York. He is also a regular contributor to the lacrosse magazine, Inside Lacrosse. He was a color commentator with Joe Beninati or Scott Garceau for Chesapeake Bayhawks games on NBC Sports Washington and ESPN3.
Kessenich attended Lynbrook High School in Lynbrook, New York, where he starred in soccer, wrestling (winning two county championships) and lacrosse. Voice of the Game: Preparation and honest delivery have propelled Quint Kessenich to the top of the lacrosse media world
On November 29, 2013, Kessenich made national headlines when he interviewed an indignant Bo Pelini at halftime of the Iowa-Nebraska football game telecast on ABC in which the Nebraska coach responded to the reporter's inquiry on a pair of Cornhusker turnovers with "What do you think? What kind of question is that?" The incident came one week after Michigan State Spartans football coach Mark Dantonio snapped at Kessenich during the halftime interview.Seth Rosenthal, Bo Pelini shuts down a Quint Kessenich halftime question, SB Nation, November 29, 2013, retrieved November 29, 2013.
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