{"id":133860,"date":"2024-05-20T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133860"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:05:03","slug":"former-usf-running-back-mike-ford-passes-away-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133860","title":{"rendered":"Former USF Running Back Mike Ford Passes Away At 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-133859\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MS-Mike-Ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MS-Mike-Ford.jpg 179w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MS-Mike-Ford-102x160.jpg 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>Mike Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The University of South Florida Football program is in mourning this week over the loss of former USF running back <strong>Mike Ford<\/strong>. <strong>Ford<\/strong>, who scored 23 career rushing touchdowns in his time at\u00a0the University of South Florida, has passed away at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Embodying a rugged running style, <strong>Ford<\/strong> had a breakthrough season as a rookie in 2007, leading the Bulls to an Associated Press Poll ranking of number two. <strong>Ford<\/strong> scored 12 running touchdowns to lead the squad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After his time at USF, <strong>Ford<\/strong> went on to play for Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ford \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The University of South Florida Football program is in mourning this week over the loss of former USF running back Mike Ford. Ford, who scored 23 career rushing touchdowns in his time at\u00a0the University of South Florida, has passed away at the age of 38. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Embodying a rugged running style, Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133904,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133860\/revisions\/133904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}