Biography
Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 β May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program.
Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine from 1962 until his death in 2017, and was a correspondent for the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel television program on HBO. He wrote 18 books, nine of them novels. A member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, Deford was six times voted National Sportswriter of the Year by the members of that organization, and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review.
In 2012, Deford became the first magazine recipient of the Red Smith Award. In 2013, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, was presented with the William Allen White Citation for "excellence in journalism" by the University of Kansas, and became the first sports journalist ever to receive the National Press Foundation's highest honor, the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism.
Deford's archives are held by the University of Texas at Austin, where an annual lecture is presented in his name. He was a long-time advocate for research and treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Filmography
all 19
Movies 16
Writer 9
self 8
TV Shows 3
The Last Days of Knight (2018)
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories (2013)
Schooled: The Price of College Sports (2013)
The United States of Football (2013)
Barbaro (2008)
Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (2006)
The Colbert Report (2005)
Four Minutes (2005)
The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World (2005)
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s (2003)
Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (2002)
Bill Russell: My Life, My Way (2000)
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
Arliss (1996)
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (1995)
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World (1994)
Everybody's All-American (1988)
Trading Hearts (1988)
Alex: The Life of a Child (1986)
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GenderMale
Birthday1938-12-16
Deathday2017-05-28 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceBaltimore, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsNational Humanities Medal
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