Van Earl Wright

Van Earl Wright is an American sportscaster with over 20 years of national and local experience.

A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Wright is known for a homespun delivery which reflects his Southern roots. His signature greeting is "Hellllooooo Everybody."

Right now (as of July 2006), he is the co-anchor of FSN Final Score, the nightly national sportscast on Fox Sports Net. He formerly served as co-host of the Morning Extravaganza on Fox Sports Radio, before being removed from that position in February, 2006 due to a severe decline in ratings and also in the number of local affiliates that carried the show. His relationship with FSN dates back to Final Score's predecessor show, National Sports Report, as well as the Southern California Sports Report, which is also no longer on air.

Wright is a former anchor at both CNN Headline News and CNN/Sports Illustrated, which put together reflects the longest tenure of his career.

Even though he was never shown on-air, Wright's voice became legendary during Headline News' sports segments during the 1980s at 19 and 49 minutes after the hour, especially for his elongated pronunciation of 'Los An-ge-leees'. Late in his tenure, he also routinely read his dry mandated sign-off ("I'm Van Earl Wright, CNN Headline Sports") with a series of increasingly bizarre inflections. His segment got note on-air by Larry King and Al Michaels, among others.

Wright also worked in Beaumont, Texas as a weekend sports anchor on KBMT, and later in Detroit, Michigan both as a sports anchor on WDIV, the local NBC television affiliate, and also as the host of a short-lived midday show on all sports radio station WDFN-AM.

Wright provided the announcer's voice for Crystal Dynamics' Sega Saturn baseball video game 3D Baseball.

On February 22, 2007 Van Earl Wright participated on a special broadcasters edition of Pros vs. Joes on Spike TV wtih Darren Horton and Sal Masakela. The Pros they faced were Rik Smits, Tennis Pro Robby Ginepri, Rob Dibble and Andre Rison.