Kevin Sylvester (American broadcaster)

{{short description|American sports media personality (born c. 1973)}}

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| birth_place = Waterloo, New York

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| team = Buffalo Sabres, Buffalo Bills, Great Lakes Mafia

| genre = Play-by-play, pre-game, post-game

| sport = Ice hockey, golf, Micro-wrestling, Putt Putt Golf, MicroWrestling Golf

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Kevin Sylvester (born c.1973) is an American sports media personality, currently employed as a radio broadcaster for the PGA Tour.

In the year 2015, Sylvester founded the GLM with long time partner (both professional and personal partnerships) Canadian Hall of Fame Amateur golfer and avid Wrestling Fan Marco Zucchini. Managed by small puppet enthusiast Ryan Lawless. The GLM is forever known as the eternal champs of the Buffalo Amateur Micro Wrestling (BAMW) Mini Golf Tour.

Sylvester had an 11-year association with the Buffalo Sabres. He succeeded Josh Mora as the Sabres' studio host during the 2005–06 Buffalo Sabres season and was the alternate play-by-play broadcaster during the 2011–12 season, handling most of the club's road games. His partner in the broadcast booth was veteran broadcaster Danny Gare, whose number has been retired by the Sabres. Since the 2008–09 season, he has been a substitute announcer for longtime play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret, who has called the team's games since the 1971–72 season. On June 18, 2012, Sylvester's new show, Sabres Hockey Hotline, debuted from the Sabres Store inside the First Niagara Center.{{cite web|url=http://sabres.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=634994|title=SABRES HOCKEY HOTLINE|last=Snow|first=Kevin|date=18 June 2012|accessdate=17 July 2012}} Sylvester left the Sabres organization on April 8, 2016, to join the PGA.

Before joining the Sabres, Sylvester was a morning host at WGR. Sylvester also serves as color commentator on UB Bulls men's basketball, with Paul Peck as the play-by-play man, on broadcasts carried by ESPN3. Sylvester also hosts two television series for WGRZ: This Weekend, a weekend events magazine,{{Cite web |url=http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2016/09/29/sylvester-returns-tv-new-local-ch-2-program/ |title=Sylvester returns to TV with new local Ch.2 program |access-date=2016-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008170120/http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2016/09/29/sylvester-returns-tv-new-local-ch-2-program/ |archive-date=2016-10-08 |url-status=dead }} and Tee 2 Green, about golf. Similarly, Sylvester is also the author of the 44-page book The Married Man's Guide to Golf. Along with Peck, Sylvester will launch Buffalo Sports Page, an Internet portal and corresponding radio show on WECK, in August 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2017/07/05/buffalo-sports-page-to-debut-next-month.html|title=Buffalo Sports Page to debut next month|first=James|last=Fink|work=Business First|date=July 5, 2017|accessdate=2017-07-05}}

Sylvester is a 1991 graduate of Waterloo High School,{{cite web|url=http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130113/SPORTS0103/301130028/Leo-Roth-Kevin-Sylvester-ready-go-after-lockout|title=Kevin Sylvester ready to go after lockout|last=Roth|first=Lee|date=14 January 2013|work=Rochester Democrat and Chronicle|publisher=Gannett|accessdate=22 January 2013}} and a 1995 alumnus of the State University of New York at Fredonia.