Bob Gillespie

Bob Gillespie. Self: ESPN SportsCentury. Bob Gillespie, a native of Orangeburg, S.C., landed his first newspaper job in 1976 at the Orangeburg Times & Democrat, and that fall as sports editor covered the Willie Jeffries 10-1 South Caroline State team that won the Black National Championship. A 1973 graduate in journalism at the University of South Carolina, he earned a masters degree in mass communications from USC in 1979. He...