About: Bob Ley   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/RqdbH3WV12ooyjpyuINlYw==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Ley grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he attended Bloomfield High School. He got his start in broadcasting at WSOU at Seton Hall University. After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Ley worked several minor broadcasting jobs, including public address announcer with the New York Cosmos soccer team, before landing his first major position with the ESPN in 1979. In 1980, Bob Ley hosted the first televised NCAA Selection Show, though the airing would switch to CBS two years later.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Bob Ley
rdfs:comment
  • Ley grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he attended Bloomfield High School. He got his start in broadcasting at WSOU at Seton Hall University. After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Ley worked several minor broadcasting jobs, including public address announcer with the New York Cosmos soccer team, before landing his first major position with the ESPN in 1979. In 1980, Bob Ley hosted the first televised NCAA Selection Show, though the airing would switch to CBS two years later.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:americanfoo...iPageUsesTemplate
Birth Date
  • 1955-03-16(xsd:date)
Name
  • Bob Ley
  • Ley, Bob
Education
  • (B.A. Communications)
  • Seton Hall University, '76
Caption
  • Ley in 2010.
Title
  • Outside the Lines host, SportsCenter anchor, soccer broadcaster
Date of Birth
  • 1955-03-16(xsd:date)
Short Description
  • Sportscaster
abstract
  • Ley grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he attended Bloomfield High School. He got his start in broadcasting at WSOU at Seton Hall University. After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Ley worked several minor broadcasting jobs, including public address announcer with the New York Cosmos soccer team, before landing his first major position with the ESPN in 1979. In 1980, Bob Ley hosted the first televised NCAA Selection Show, though the airing would switch to CBS two years later. Ley is famous for breaking the banishment of Pete Rose from Major League Baseball for life in 1989. He also anchored, along with Trey Wingo, the lone SportsCenter on September 11, 2001, to announce there would be no games for at least one week. Ley currently hosts ESPN's investigative program Outside the Lines. He did host SportsCenter for much of his career at ESPN, returning on August 9, 2004 to host an "old school" edition with longtime partner Charley Steiner. He is the primary studio host for ESPN's telecasts of major international professional soccer tournaments such as the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, and the 2012 UEFA European Championship. Ley currently serves on the Board of Regents for Seton Hall University.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software