Jeanne Zelasko

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Jeanne Zelasko getting ready for her on air duties

Jeanne Zelasko (born October 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a sports commentator for the FOX network. Primarily she covers Major League Baseball and NASCAR events. She became the pre-game host of FOX's MLB games in 2001 after the departure of Keith Olbermann.

Her husband, Curt Sandoval, is a sports anchor and reporter for ABC-owned KABC-TV in Los Angeles and triathlete - having completed the Ironman in Hawaii.

1 Early life
2 The Ernie Harwell interview
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Early life

Jeanne attended San Pasqual High School in Escondido, California from 1980 - 1984 where she was captain of the cheerleading squad and demonstrated that she could sing.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to breaking into television, Zelasko was a radio personality known as "Jeanne Z."

[edit] The Ernie Harwell interview

While covering the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit's Comerica Park, a visibly pregnant Zelasko angered many fans for her treatment of legendary broadcaster Ernie Harwell. Many didn't like the way Zelasko abruptly--and in many fans' eyes, awkwardly--cut Harwell off just 17 seconds into a pre-game interview, as Harwell was detailing the accomplishments of famous Tiger Al Kaline.^[1]