Chad Ford To Leave ESPN 26th July, 2005 - 5:25 pm Christopher Reina/RealGM - Multiple sources have confirmed that Chad Ford, NBA Insider for ESPN.com will be leaving his post in the coming weeks. He will become a professor of international conflict resolution at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Representatives from ESPN could not be reached for comment on Tuesday evening. Ford joined ESPN in 2001 when sportsTALK.com became ESPN Insider, a subscription based service on the site. Ford previously was the executive editor of sportsTALK.com, an internet sports site he co-founded with Jason Peery. Prior to his role with sportsTALK, Ford graduated from Georgetown Law School, after earning a degree in history from Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 1995. His NBA coverage has taken him all over the world scouting international talent and he has routinely broken important free agent signings and trades. Though sometimes disputed, Ford’s impact and influence on NBA news has become unquestionable. He has always delivered valuable information to his audience. No word yet on who ESPN will tap to replace him.
Losing Chad Ford is a loss for ESPN. People hate him, but you still read what he writes. Alot people pay to read what he writes.
A lot of people don't like Chad Ford but he was good at being the first to report trades and signing free agents.
I never really got the feeling he truly enjoyed the game, that he only used it as a stepping stone for something else. People forget that in sportsTALK's last year or two, he wasn't even writing about basketball, just handling the business end. If ESPN had hired him to write about soccer, he would have jumped at it, just because that's where the money was. Good luck to him. I hope he finally found something he's happy doing.
He has a law degree, and did history under grad. Now he is going to teach advance topic in polisci after wrote about basketball for 5 years. Interesting.
Darko Milicic, Zarko Cabarkapa and all the other foreign prospects he overrated and hyped up owe him an enormous thank-you card.
Cabarkapa isn't so bad. He was draining 3's on us like he was Dirk Jr. Of course if you look at his stats on nba.com that was the game of his life.
And Andres Biedrins owes him a pop in the mouth. Darko's hype allowed him to slip in the draft and cost him a few millions.
Yeah, really. I would hope he has extensive work experience if he's going to be teaching this stuff. BYU-Hawaii sounds like a swell institution.
