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.
When the magical 1980 Phillies season was about to begin, Mike Schmidt received a $5,000 promotional contract to wear Nike spikes and the promise of a bonus depending on how things went.
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In the matter before the court, the case of Rotation v. Bullpen for the estate of Brett Allen Myers, I've got to enter a guilty plea this morning.
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It's a great week for professional cycling. The 2008 Tour de France begins on Saturday, and the winner of the 2006 Tour will be decided today.
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It's funny. When Dallas Green used to confront ballplayers and tell them to "look in the bleeping mirror," very few of them pushed him to the floor and then leaped on top to wrap their hands around his neck.
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Bob Ford: Speights one part of Stefanski's bigger plan
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Bob Ford: Ed Stefanski said the 76ers would draft a big man, probably one you don't know a lot about, and probably one who wouldn't make much of an impact right away. He wasn't kidding. Marreese Speights is the newest Sixer.
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It is very pleasant to think the Phillies will be healed of their infirmities with one quick swipe of the trade brush before long. Pat Gillick, a duck so lame he nearly quacks, says the team will be very aggressive somewhere around the all-star break or,
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Bob Ford: Star-packed U.S. team set, so what?
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The USA Basketball roster for the Summer Olympics in Beijing was announced yesterday and - big surprise - it looks good on paper again.
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When the clock neared midnight on Tuesday and the last seconds were squeezed from the NBA Finals, Kevin Garnett - a 13-year veteran, 11-time all-star, former most valuable player, and no one's fool - made his way through the confetti and the noise to prostrate himself at midcourt of the TD Banknorth Garden and kiss the leprechaun-in-the-circle logo of the Boston Celtics.
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BOSTON - The chant was the same as it has ever been, or so it seemed, as it echoed back across all those years.
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Someone find M. Night Shyamalan and get him down to Citizens Bank Park tonight. There's a horror story to be told.
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Amid the fuss over whether Lito Sheppard, the once and not-so-future starting left cornerback of the Eagles, shows up today for the start of the voluntary Organized Team Activity camp at the NovaCare Complex, is the fact that the front office and coaching staff don't care all that much.
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If Big Brown successfully negotiates the two turns at Belmont Park on Saturday, pulls ahead of the rushing pack, and becomes horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in three decades, salute him briefly - and then forget him.
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