Mar 08, 2019 dan jenkins, a legendary sportswriter and texas icon who wrote 23 books, including the runaway bestseller semitough, died thursday. Paschal high school and texas christian university tcu, where he played on the varsity golf team career. Dan jenkins will detest, hate and scoff at the following, but sitting in his office and stealing one hour of his time is one of the greatest professional thrills most people in this profession. If every college football team had a linebacker like dick butkus, all fullbacks would soon be 3 feet tall and sing soprano. Jenkins worked for many publications including the fort worth press, dallas times herald, playboy, and sports illustrated, where among other things he covered the 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1971. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different. Dan jenkins was an awardwinning sportswriter and bestselling novelist whose career spanned seven decades. Jenkinss farewell salute to bigtime sportswriting is a tellall novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the olympics to the kentucky derby to wimbledon. Dan jenkins, legendary sportswriter, texas icon and. Author dan jenkins latest offering features pete wallace, a good old boy from texas, who paid his dues coaching football on obscure campuses in the boondocks of america until he landed the athletic directors job at western ohio university. Dan jenkins, who specialized in covering golf and football on the pages of sports illustrated and in making readers laugh with satirical sports novels such as semitough and dead solid perfect.
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