The expanded presentation also will feature former Honors award winners as presenters in certain categories. NCAA honors to be presented at the Celebration include the Silver Anniversary Awards, the Today's Top VIII, the Inspiration Awards and the Theodore Roosevelt
Award, the highest award the NCAA bestows upon an individual.

Ford is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, and a nationally recognized trial attorney, author and teacher. Currently an anchor with Court TV and the host of the PBS series, "Inside the Law," he began his television news career in 1984 as the legal analyst for WCBS-TV in New York. In 1991, he helped launch Court TV as one of its first anchors.

In 1994, Ford joined NBC News as chief legal correspondent, reporting on major legal cases and issues for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and Dateline. He joined ABC News in 1999, serving as an anchor/correspondent for both "Good Morning America" and "20/20." He also hosted the ESPN show, "The Sports Reporters II," from 2002 to 2003.

Ford received his law degree from the Fordham University School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, where, in addition to excelling academically, he was a three-year starter on the football team.

Before entering television journalism, Ford was an assistant prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Later in private practice, he was involved in many high-profile cases, among them the state's first death-penalty case and the Wall Street insider-trading scandal. He has authored a number of articles for various legal publications, and he was an adjunct professor of law at the Fordham Law School.