Background
Sally Jenkins was born on the 22nd of October, 1960 in Texas and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Dan Jenkins, a legendary sportswriter and novelist, and June Burrage.
Sally Jenkins
1982
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Sally Jenkins studied at Stanford University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1982.
2011
Writer Sally Jenkins explains the importance of sports in American culture Wednesday at the South Atlantic Conference.
1982
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Sally Jenkins studied at Stanford University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1982.
2009
1900 Hazeltine Blvd, Chaska, MN 55318, United States
Sportswriter Dan Jenkins stands next to his daughter, Sally Jenkins at the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club.
2011
Writer Sally Jenkins explains the importance of sports in American culture Wednesday at the South Atlantic Conference.
Sally with her father and brother, Marty.
Sally Jenkins's mother, June Jenkins.
Sally Jenkins's father, Dan Jenkins.
(Acclaimed writer Sally Jenkins travels from locker rooms ...)
Acclaimed writer Sally Jenkins travels from locker rooms to team laundry rooms and kicks open the door to reveal what men may have feared for some time women are pigs, too. Women love the mess, the game plan, and the pileup in the end zone as much as the next guy, they just wonder if a winning season means that the head coach isn't able to spend enough time with his kids. In Men Will Be Boys Jenkins punctures the macho crap that surrounds the game and makes it more fun for the woman fan. And men, too, if they'd only admit they don't know everything.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385483899/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, was a...)
Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, was a phenomenon in women's basketball. Her ferociously competitive teams won three NCAA championships in a row of 1996, 1997, and 1998. The 1997-98 Lady Vols posted a historic 39-0 record, prompting the New York Times, among many others, to proclaim them "the best women's college team ever." In this groundbreaking motivational book, Pat Summitt presented her formula for success, which she called the "Definite Dozen System." Pat Summitt's story will motivate you to achieve in sports, business, and the most important game of all life.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767902297/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee ...)
So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and seasoned stars produced a standard of play that would change the game of women's basketball forever.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767903293/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(The inspiring journey of world-class hero Lance Armstrong...)
The inspiring journey of world-class hero Lance Armstrong, from the dark night of advanced cancer through his dramatic victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and beyond. In 1996, twenty-four-year-old Lance Armstrong was ranked the number-one cyclist in the world. But that October, "The Golden Boy of American Cycling" was sidelined by excruciating pain. Tests revealed advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. His chance for recovery was as low as twenty percent. Armstrong embarked on the most aggressive form of chemotherapy available and underwent surgery to remove cancer that the treatments couldn't reach.
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2000
(For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University...)
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, having an impact both on the court and in the lives of countless young men. In A Coach’s Life, he looks back on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career and, in a new final chapter, discusses his retirement from the game. The fundamentals of good basketball are the fundamentals of character passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility and superlative mentor and coach Dean Smith imparts them all with equal authority.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375758801/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(The first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympic...)
The first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympic Games shares her remarkable story, from the moment she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease at age nine through her remarkable career in track and field.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399148035/?tag=2022091-20
2001
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2003
(Describes how an unheralded New York horse trained by a j...)
Describes how an unheralded New York horse trained by a journeyman, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a group of high-school buddies from Sackets Harbor beat the champions and their multimillionaire owners to sweep to the brink of the Triple Crown.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399151796/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gri...)
If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. The Real All Americans are about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767926242/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(The State of Jones is a true story about the South during...)
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight’s life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DBIODE/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The...)
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805093389/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the...)
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history. She coached an undefeated season, co-captained the first women's Olympic team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was named Sports Illustrated 'Sportswoman of the Year'. Pat's life took a shocking turn in 2011 when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible brain condition that affects 5 million Americans. Despite her devastating diagnosis, she led the Vols to win their sixteenth SEC championship in March 2012. Pat continued to be a fighter, facing this new challenge the way she's faced every other with hard work, perseverance, and a sense of humor.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385347057/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Sally Jenkins was born on the 22nd of October, 1960 in Texas and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Dan Jenkins, a legendary sportswriter and novelist, and June Burrage.
Sally Jenkins studied at Stanford University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1982.
Sally Jenkins got involved with journalism early in her college career by working for The Stanford Daily right from her freshman year. She developed her skills as a reporter during this time, learning lessons such as making the extra call.
After starting out covering the men’s water polo team, she became the sports section’s co-editor in 1981 and 1982. Jenkins oversaw the department during John Elway’s quarterbacking the Stanford football team. After graduating, she held myriad writing positions, even working as an assistant to the gossip columnist at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner for a year in 1983. She got early experience covering high school sports for the San Francisco Examiner in 1982-1983. Jenkins spent time at The San Francisco Chronicle as a journalist between 1983 and 1984.
She joined The Washington Post in 1984. Over the next six years, she covered a variety of sports for the Post including football, basketball, tennis, golf, and the Olympics. She spent more than a year covering the death of Len Bias and its aftermath. In 1990, Jenkins left the Washington Post and took a senior writer position at Sports Illustrated. Then in 1996, she left Sports Illustrated to help launch the first sports magazine for women “Women’s Sports and Fitness”.
Returning to The Washington Post in 1996 as a sports columnist and feature writer, she has covered such significant sports news events as Joe Paterno’s departure from Penn State. She has covered many different types of sports figures — some with social courage and some lacking.
In addition to her print and correspondent career, Jenkins is the author of 12 books. Jenkins's first book was “Men Will Be Boys: The Modern Woman Explains Football and Other Amusing Male Rituals” that came out in 1996, a humorous look at the male-dominated world of sports.
Jenkins followed Men Will Be Boys with a pair of books coauthored with Pat Summitt in 1998, coach of the highly successful Lady Vols basketball team at the University of Tennessee. “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do” provides motivational advice, while “Raise the Roof: The Inspiring Inside Story of the Tennessee Lady Vols' Undefeated 1997-98 Season” recounted one memorable season for the team, when they were undefeated in thirty-nine games and won their third straight NCAA championship—their sixth, under Summitt's direction.
Jenkins co-authored two books with world champion cyclist Lance Armstrong - “It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life” in 2000 and “Every Second Counts” in 2003. In “No Finish Line: My Life as I See It” that was published in 2001, Jenkins co-authored another story of an athlete who overcame incredible odds to triumph.
Sally Jenkins’ most recent book is “Sum It Up” with the legendary coach Pat Summitt, published shortly after Summitt was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Among the work she is proud of is “The Real Americans,” the true story of how the Carlisle Indian School took on the Ivy League powers in college football at the turn of the century and won, pioneering trick plays and the forward pass.
Jenkins and the rest of a reporting team at the Post were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for their work on the sudden death of Maryland basketball star Len Bias.
In 1990, Sally became one of only two female staff writers at Sports Illustrated magazine. There, Jenkins was particularly respected for her coverage of tennis.
Sally Jenkins got the award for sports column writing from Quill magazine in 2002. Jenkins’s book “It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life” was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list and appeared in the Texas Tayshas Reading List from 2001 to 2002.
Sally Jenkins was named Sports Columnist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001, 2008 and in 2011. In recognition of her outstanding career, Jenkins was enshrined in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame on May 2, 2005.
Sally Jenkins's work has been collected in the Best American Sports Writing Anthologies of 1990, 1995, 2007 and 2011. Her magazine works have appeared in such diverse publications as Smithsonian, GQ, and Parade.
(For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The...)
2010(Describes how an unheralded New York horse trained by a j...)
2004(The first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympic...)
2001(For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University...)
2000(Acclaimed writer Sally Jenkins travels from locker rooms ...)
1996(The inspiring journey of world-class hero Lance Armstrong...)
2000(So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee ...)
1998(Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the...)
2013(If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gri...)
2007(Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, was a...)
1998(The State of Jones is a true story about the South during...)
2009
Quotations:
"I think I grew up around sports writing the way Austrians grow up around skiing. It’s really osmosis almost. I was very immersed in the profession from a very young age".
"There is a certain mystique to professional athletes that sportswriters are charged with demystifying; central to my job is the goal of achieving an understanding of who athletes are on and off the court or field".
"I do, however, feel frustration because of a journalistic itch toward truth and candor and a sensation that I had been blocked from being able to write the story of [Lance Armstrong's] life in accordance with those ideals".
"Despite all the landmines in that interview, I’m glad I did it. I didn’t get everything I wanted to out of it, but I did get some essential questions answered regarding [Joe Paterno's] personal account of what he decided, when did he make this decision, when he found out".
"Writers should report with their whole bodies; this is the heart of reporting".
"Writing is magic in the sense that what you’re feeling when you write something lifts off the page like perfume and the reader smells it".
