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08-17-2008, 08:22 PM
ESPN/TEAM Announce New LSU Site
Scott Rabalais has been named the lead writer for a new website devoted to covering LSU sports. The ESPN-affiliated TigerGumbo.com will make its debut in late August.
Rabalais, 41, has been a sports writer since 1989, working first for the State-Times newspaper in Baton Rouge and then The Advocate beginning in 1991. He has covered LSU athletics since 1992 and in 2001 became the newspaper's primary sports columnist. His career has included covering virtually every LSU sport as well as travels from coast-to-coast to cover events such as the Super Bowl, the men's and women's Final Fours, the College World Series, The Masters and the Daytona 500.
A 1989 LSU graduate, Rabalais has won two dozen first-place state and regional writing awards. He has been named sports columnist of the year a combined total of seven times by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association and the Louisiana Press Association. He won the 1999 LSWA Story of the Year Award, was awarded the 1996 Green Eyeshade Award by the Society of Profesional Journalists, and has twice placed in the Associated Press Sports Editors top five nationally in The Advocate's circulation category.
Rabalais has served as the Louisiana state representative for the Heisman Trophy since 2001, responsible for choosing new media voters as needed, and has been selected to vote on The Associated Press football poll 11 times since 1993. He has also just published his first book, entitled "The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008; Into a New Century of LSU Football," due out in September from LSU Press.
Scott Rabalais has been named the lead writer for a new website devoted to covering LSU sports. The ESPN-affiliated TigerGumbo.com will make its debut in late August.
Rabalais, 41, has been a sports writer since 1989, working first for the State-Times newspaper in Baton Rouge and then The Advocate beginning in 1991. He has covered LSU athletics since 1992 and in 2001 became the newspaper's primary sports columnist. His career has included covering virtually every LSU sport as well as travels from coast-to-coast to cover events such as the Super Bowl, the men's and women's Final Fours, the College World Series, The Masters and the Daytona 500.
A 1989 LSU graduate, Rabalais has won two dozen first-place state and regional writing awards. He has been named sports columnist of the year a combined total of seven times by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association and the Louisiana Press Association. He won the 1999 LSWA Story of the Year Award, was awarded the 1996 Green Eyeshade Award by the Society of Profesional Journalists, and has twice placed in the Associated Press Sports Editors top five nationally in The Advocate's circulation category.
Rabalais has served as the Louisiana state representative for the Heisman Trophy since 2001, responsible for choosing new media voters as needed, and has been selected to vote on The Associated Press football poll 11 times since 1993. He has also just published his first book, entitled "The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008; Into a New Century of LSU Football," due out in September from LSU Press.