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Bobby La Gesse

American sportwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ18149106 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bobby La Gesse is a sportswriter and editor, currently working for the Ames Tribune in Ames, Iowa. He covers primarily Iowa State Cyclones sports and has been viewed as an authority on the programs by ESPN, Sports Business Daily, The Oklahoman, and NBC Sports.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bobby, Gesse and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bobby La Gesse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.