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Bob Ford is an award-winning sports columnist for The Inquirer. He is a four-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year, as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His work has been cited numerous times by Associated Press Sports Editors judges and he won an Eclipse Award for outstanding coverage of horse racing.
Prior to becoming a columnist at the Inquirer, Ford was the 76ers beat writer for six seasons and then a general assignment feature writer with a specialty in Olympic Sports. 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 sports columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times.
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- Final U.S. Open leaderboard
- Poll: Will Merion host another U.S. Open? (1474 votes)
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Merion proves it can beat the best
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Bob Ford: The experts who predicted that someone would come out and shoot a 62 or 63 during a round of the Open seem to have left their predictions buried in the deep rough.
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Tiger makes this Open bigger
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Bob Ford: The deepest reason for abiding interest in the U.S. Open is Tiger Woods.
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Baseball takes lead in fight against PEDs
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Bob Ford: Bud Selig has been the most successful - or at least willing - at fighting performance-enhancing drugs.
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Doc a reason to believe
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Bob Ford: If Roy Halladay returns to the Phillies somewhere near his usual form, he provides a reason to believe in an otherwise mediocre team.
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RG3 should ignore McNabb
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Bob Ford: There's no other explanation for why Donovan McNabb thinks that anything Robert Griffin III does is any of his business.
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Rutgers athletics' issues won't go away
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Bob Ford: Rutgers wants to draw the blinds over the hiring of new athletic director Julie Hermann.
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Phils simply not on base enough
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Bob Ford: The Phillies don't put enough runners on base and try to win games with nothing but solo home runs.
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Time for Phils to see if Hernandez can play
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Bob Ford: If Cesar Hernandez hangs around, that might be a good indicator of if the load-out has begun in earnest.
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Sergio-Tiger spat spices up golf
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Bob Ford: Professional golf would be a lot more interesting if there were more feuds like the current one between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia.
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Phillies simply not contenders
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Bob Ford: The Phillies overachieved and still played below .500 through the first 47 games.
