Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins (born December 2, 1929) is an American author and sportswriter, most notably for Sports Illustrated.

Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended R .L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played on the varsity golf team. Jenkins has worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated, where among other things he covered the 1966,^[1] 1967,^[2] 1969^[3] and 1971 ^[4] versions of the college football Game of the Century. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintains a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine.

Larry King has called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins has written numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough. Jenkins now lives in Fort Worth with his family.

In 2010 Jenkins drew negative attention for a comment he made on Twitter. During the Masters Tournament he jokingly compared Y.E. Yang to a Chinese food delivery guy by writing, "Y.E. Yang is only three shots off the lead. I think we got takeout from him last night." ^[5]

His daughter Sally Jenkins is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.

Books

• Dead Solid Perfect
• Slim and None
• The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year by Curt Sampson and Dan Jenkins
• Semi-Tough: A Novel
• The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist
• Baja Oklahoma
• Fairways and Greens
• You Gotta Play Hurt
• Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Football, and Other Matters That Occasionally Matter
• Life Its Ownself: The Semi-Tougher Adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett and Them
• Rude Behavior
• Fast Copy: A Novel (Texas Tradition Series) by Dan Jenkins and Sally Jenkins
• Football by Walter Iooss and Dan Jenkins
• Limo by Dan Jenkins, and Edwin Shrake
• Sports illustrated's the best 18 golf holes in America
• Life Its Ownself
• Best American Sports Writing 1995 (Best American Sports Writing) by Dan Jenkins and Glenn Stout
• Saturday's America
• The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate
• You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There (1989) ISBN 978-0517076064
• The Franchise Babe (2008)
• Jenkins at the Majors (2009)

References

1. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1079307/index.htm
2. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1080594/index.htm
3. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1083149/index.htm
4. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1085606/index.htm
5. ^ http://deadspin.com/5514163/ye-yang-or-last-nights-chinese-food-delivery-boy-venerated-golf-writer-isnt-sure

External links

• Dan Jenkins Profile

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Name	Jenkins, Dan
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Short description	Sportswriter
Date of birth	December 2, 1929
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