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Gabbert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Blaine Gabbert (born 1989), American football quarterback * James Gabbert (born 1936), San Francisco radio and television entrepreneur *John Gabbert (1909–2013), American jurist * John Gabbert Bowman (1877-1966), American academic * Michael Gabbert, journalist whose investigations uncovered the 1964 British betting scandal The British betting scandal of 1964 was a scandal in English association football in which ten professional players were gaoled for offences arising from match fixing. History Former Scottish youth international and Swindon Town, Plymouth Argyle ... *Sandra Kay Gabbert, one of the victims of Green River Killer Gary Ridgway See also * Gabbard (other) * Gabbart * Gabbett {{surname, Gabbert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaine Gabbert
Blaine Williamson Gabbert (born October 15, 1989) is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Missouri before leaving early for the 2011 NFL Draft after his junior year. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the first round with the 10th overall pick. He has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, and Tennessee Titans. Gabbert was on the Buccaneers' roster as a backup quarterback when they won Super Bowl LV. Early years Gabbert was born in Ballwin, Missouri. He attended Parkway West High School in Ballwin, where he played for the Parkway West Longhorns high school football team. He was a five-star blue-chip All-American and, according to ''Rivals.com'', was their No. 14 national player overall at any position. He was invited to participate in the Elite 11 quarterback camp in the summer of 2007 where he won the camp MVP honors over Andrew Luck and then, in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gabbert
James Gabbert (born 1936 in Chico, California) is a radio and television engineer and entrepreneur, California Broadcasters Association 1994 Broadcaster of the Year, and past president of the National Radio Broadcasters Association. He has owned and managed San Francisco Bay Area television station KOFY-TV and radio stations KIOI and KSOL, and Honolulu stations KIKI and KPIG-FM. Gabbert lives in Sausalito. Education Gabbert studied electrical engineering at Stanford University. Career Radio While in school in 1957, Gabbert founded KPEN-FM in Atherton. and in 1968 changed its call sign to KIOI ("K-101"). Gabbert moved K101 to San Francisco and purchased KSAY (1010 AM), changing its call letters to KIQI. In 1979, Gabbert acquired Honolulu stations KIKI and KPIG-FM. Television Gabbert sold his four radio stations and bought KEMO-TV (Channel 20) in San Francisco, changing its call sign to KTZO in October 1980. In 1986, KTZO became KOFY. In 1994 Gabbert was approached by W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gabbert
John Gordon Gabbert (June 20, 1909 – December 9, 2013) was an associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan in May 1970. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge for Riverside County, California. Biography Early life Gabbert was born in Oxnard, California on June 20, 1909. In 1912, when he was three years old, he moved with his parents to Riverside, California. His father, J. R. Gabbert, purchased the Riverside Enterprise newspaper and worked as both editor and publisher. Gabbert grew up working with the metal type in his father's print shop at the press. Education Gabbert attended public grade schools and Poly High School in Riverside. After graduating from South Pasadena High School in 1927, he attended Riverside Junior College, where he was the Student Body President in 1929, and then Occidental College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931. He then attended Duke University School of Law from 1931 to 1932, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gabbert Bowman
John Gabbert Bowman (May 18, 1877 – December 2, 1962) was the tenth Chancellor (1921–1945) of the University of Pittsburgh and the ninth President (1911–1914) of the University of Iowa. He is best known for initiating and completing the 42-story Cathedral of Learning, the centerpiece of Pitt's campus, over the objections of many faculty and community members. At the time, it was the tallest educational structure in the world. He also established the University of Pittsburgh Press and oversaw the institution of controversial athletic policies that resulted in the resignation in popular head football coach Jock Sutherland. Early life Bowman was born in Davenport, Iowa. He married Florence Ridgway Berry and they had two children. He also worked as a journalist in Iowa and Illinois, taught in a one-room rural Iowa school and at Columbia University. From Columbia, he worked at the newly founded Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Career In 1915, he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 British Betting Scandal
The British betting scandal of 1964 was a scandal in English association football in which ten professional players were gaoled for offences arising from match fixing. History Former Scottish youth international and Swindon Town, Plymouth Argyle, St Johnstone and Mansfield Town player Jimmy Gauld over several years systematically interfered with matches in the Football League, enticing players into betting on the outcome of fixed matches. It was when he learned that players at one of his former clubs – Mansfield Town – had been paid by Tranmere Rovers players to lose a game that Gauld first became involved in match-fixing. In late 1962, Gauld approached Sheffield Wednesday player David Layne, a former team-mate at Swindon Town, to identify a target game. Layne suggested that Wednesday were likely to lose their match on 1 December 1962 against Ipswich Town and suggested to his fellow players Peter Swan and Tony Kay that they ensure the outcome. The three all bet agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer and sex offender. He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders. As part of his plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions to 49, making him the second most prolific serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders. He killed many teenage girls and women in the U.S. state of Washington during the 1980s and 1990s. Most of Ridgway's victims were alleged to be sex workers and other women in vulnerable circumstances, including underage runaways. The press gave him his nickname after the first five victims were found in the Green River before his identity was known. He strangled his victims, usually by hand but sometimes using ligatures. After strangling them, he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas in King County, often returning to the bodies to have sexual intercourse with them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabbard (other)
Gabbard may refer to: * Gabbard (surname) ** Tulsi Gabbard (born 1981), American politician and former member of the Democratic Party * Battle of the Gabbard, in the First Anglo-Dutch War * Greater Gabbard, future wind farm due in England * HMS Gabbard (D47), Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy * A variant spelling of Gabbart, an inland sailing barge. See also * Gabbert {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabbart
A Gabbart is a type of lighter or barge, used in the 17th through 19th century. They are small one-masted sailing or coasting vessel. Used mostly for inland navigation, especially on the River Clyde in Scotland. Transported mainly coal and fish (mainly herring Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...). Comment from 1877: Gabbarts: Boats of from 30 to 40 tons, which, before the railway was opened to Balloch, carried coals etc., from the Clyde, up the River Leven, to various places on the banks of the Loch, taking back cargoes of slates or timber. Gabbart The typical Scottish sailing barge from which most Scottish Canal craft were developed. A long narrow flat vessel or lighter with a hatchway extending almost the full length of the decks, sometimes fitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
