Spencer Fordin knew he wanted to be a sportswriter at age 9. It was an ambitious goal for Fordin, who grew up in what he described as a “blue collar home” in Port Washington, New York, along the north shore of Long Island. His father Richard Fordin worked in auto repair in the community his entire life – a precedent Spencer Fordin said he departed from dramatically by moving to Gainesville to study journalism at the University of Florida. The ch…