In Columbia, Last Call for WLTX’s Sports Director

By Andrew Gauthier 

The State

Players rarely know when to walk away from their sport. The same can’t be said about Bob Shields, the WLTX-19 sports director, who is walking away from sports.

He’s leaving the game of sports reporting how the great running back Barry Sanders left the game of football: on his own terms. Today is his last day after almost 30 years at the station.

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Shields, 50, will become the vice president of Life Careers, a career management firm. He said hes leaving because of personal and professional reasons. More…

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