Rodney Curt Gilmore (born January 31, 1960) is an American

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most o ...

analyst, working for ABC and

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since 1996. Prior to joining ABC and ESPN in 1996, Gilmore worked for Pacific Sports Network, SportsChannel Bay Area and Prime Sports Network. He is a 1982 graduate of

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

, where he played defensive back for three years. He received his J.D. degree from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1986. He was part of the Stanford team that was involved in The Play, a last-second kickoff return by the University of California Golden Bears to defeat Stanford on November 20, 1982. In addition to calling college football games, Gilmore is a practicing attorney in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Gov ...

. His father, Carter Gilmore, was the first African American elected to the

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the B ...

, city council; and his wife, Marie Gilmore, was elected as the mayor of

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, in November 2010. On August 15, 2016, it was made public that Gilmore had been diagnosed with blood cancer.

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Rod Gilmore ESPN bio
1960 births Living people American football cornerbacks American television sports announcers College football announcers Players of American football from Oakland, California Stanford Cardinal football players UC Berkeley School of Law alumni People with multiple myeloma {{US-tv-bio-stub