"Ricky Ford" is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Ford was born in Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1974 he recorded with Gunther Schuller and then played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington from 1974 to 1976. After this he played with Charles Mingus (1976–77), Dannie Richmond (1978–1981), Lionel Hampton, and then in the Mingus Dynasty (1982). In 1985 he played with Abdullah Ibrahim. He has recorded extensively as a leader for Muse Records/Muse and Candid Records/Candid.

He had taught at Istanbul Bilgi University from 2001 to 2006.

He founded in 2009 the Toucy Jazz Festival in Yonne (France), and invited musicians like Rhoda Scott(2009) and Ravi Coltrane (2011).

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It's hard to beat a good team three or four times in a year and Northwest has a good basketball team. Fortunately for us, we've seemed to play well against them.

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We count on her to do a lot of things for us. She's expected to defend well, rebound on both ends and give us help inside of offense.

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In the first half, we didn't do a good job attacking the basket. I thought in the second half we did a much better job on offense and we shot the ball really well.

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I knew when we played them last week that they didn't have a good night. I told our kids to make sure we weren't overconfident tonight.

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Once you get to this point there aren't any easy games left. Every time you step on the court you've got to be focused and play with intensity.

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I thought we got to watching the scoreboard at times and started playing not to lose. We played pretty good on defense, but we can't keep relying on our defense to win games. We've got to have people on offense wanting the ball and wanting to score.

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She's a leader for us now. She's always upbeat, and it carries over to the rest of the team. Jamie is strong in her Christian beliefs, and I really respect her as a player and a person.

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