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

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analyst, working for

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and

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since 1996. He played college football as a

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for the

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. Prior to joining ABC and ESPN in 1996, Gilmore worked for Pacific Sports Network, SportsChannel Bay Area and

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. He is a 1982 graduate of

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, 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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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's Golden Bears to defeat Stanford on November 20, 1982. In addition to calling college football games, Gilmore is a practicing attorney in the

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

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

, 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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External links

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