Bob Ford is an award-winning sports columnist for The Inquirer. After coming to the newspaper as the beat writer for the 76ers, a capacity he served for six seasons, Ford became a general assignment writer with a specialty in Olympic sports. He has covered every Winter and Summer Olympic Games beginning with Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. He also has been a feature writer. In 1995, he was designated a fellow of The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.
Ford has written sports in the Philadelphia area since 1981 when he served as the Phillies beat writer and later as a general columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times.
Midway through the third quarter last night, when the Eagles lined up for what should have been a simple quarterback sneak on fourth and inches, they tried to outsmart the Dallas Cowboys instead of merely settling for beating them.
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If the Phillies are going to get back to the World Series in 2010, they will need Cole Hamels to pitch like Cole Hamels and quit channeling his inner Tyler Green.
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No shame in loss, but Phils' business unfinished
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NEW YORK - There's nothing particularly unique or shameful about losing a World Series to the New York Yankees. It had been done 26 times before last night when the Phillies became the latest victim of the most decorated team in baseball history.
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If you want to win the World Series despite a three-games-to-one deficit and need to finish off the comeback with a pair of wins on the road, the best formula to follow would be the one employed by the Detroit Tigers in 1968.
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Now comes the hard part. Last night's World Series win over the New York Yankees was hardly a sure thing, but it was the surest card the Phillies had in their hand as they attempt to play their way out of the deep hole they dug in the first four games of the series.
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Bob Ford: It's not over yet, but it's pretty close
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Well, it's been nice. The Phillies, as you know and have witnessed and been told endlessly, are a resilient team. They are never finished until it is finished, are never out of it until it is over. They battle, they scrap, they come back when there is very little hope of coming back.
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So, it is Joe Blanton to save the season tonight. That's the way it works now, after Cole Hamels disassembled in the middle innings against the Yankees last night. That is the rotation the Phillies have devised, and that is the savior you get.
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Bob Ford: Manuel's rotation-juggling carries a lot of risk
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NEW YORK - Every decision Charlie Manuel has made since the postseason began has been with the intent of putting the Phillies in better position to repeat as World Series champions.
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Bob Ford: Utley does it again, sets tone for Series
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NEW YORK - There was no way to expect what Chase Utley did last night in the opening game of the World Series, of course.
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LANDOVER, Md. - One week after laying an egg in Oakland, the Eagles finally located the henhouse. It was right there off the Capital Beltway, a big, old burgundy-and-gold henhouse with lots of chickens ripe for the plucking.
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The game against the Raiders last week had reached its final minutes and the costumed customers in Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum shook their plastic weapons and growled their meanest growls as Donovan McNabb took a shotgun snap and searched the stage for a redemptive exit.
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This didn't have to happen for the Phillies, this return to the World Series, and all those people telling you to savor these moments because they are rare and fleeting are correct.
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