Seton Hall Alum Bob Ley To Host ESPN Special On Tuesday

Seton Hall University graduate and Essex County native Bob Ley will host a 25th anniversary special of ESPN’s award-winning investigative sports show, “Outside the Lines,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 7.

According to a release, the show has captured 11 Sports Emmy Awards and some of most coveted prizes in TV journalism; including a recent duPont Award and Peabody Award, as well as multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, including one in video investigative reporting – a first for a sports entry.

“I would like congratulate Bob Ley — and the whole team — on 25 spectacular years of OTL,” stated ESPN President John Skipper. “He has established himself as nothing less than the Walter Cronkite of sports journalism, clearly the leading sports news host of the past quarter century. The range and quickness of his intellect, his ever-present curiosity and his persistent search for truth distinguish his work for ESPN.”

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Photo caption: Bob Ley films in Vietnam in 1998 for an Outside The Lines episode, “Made in Vietnam: The American Sneaker Controversy.”