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SportsNet’s Jim Jackson, Inquirer’s Bob Ford among honorees at NSSA’s Annual Awards

Bob Costas of NBC Sports and the Major League Baseball Network and John Feinstein of the Washington Post have been elected to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s Hall of Fame, NSSA Executive Director Dave Goren announced. Costas and Feinstein will be honored at the 53rd Annual NSSA Awards Banquet on June 11, 2012 in Salisbury, NC. The event marks the 50th anniversary of the NSSA’s Hall of Fame.

Sharing the stage with Costas and Feinstein will be National Sportscaster of the Year Dan Shulman of ESPN and National Sportswriter of the Year Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated, along with 103 State Sportscasters and Sportswriters of the Year from throughout the United States.

The television ‘Voice of the Philadelphia Flyers,’ on Comcast SportsNet, Jim Jackson is the Pennsylvania Sportscaster of the Year. Bob Ford of the Philadelphia Inquirer is the Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year. It’s the first win for Jackson, who also serves as pre-game and post-game host for Phillies’ games on radio. It’s the fifth win for Ford.