Jenkins' Semi-Memoir

Dan Jenkins has a semi-memoir coming out.

"His Ownself: a Semi-Memoir"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/books/his-ownself-a-semi-memoir-by-dan-jenkins.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

I'm sure several folks here will be stoked. Jenkins has written a lot of great things..

I'm no fan of Jenkins. He's a guy who's been there, done that and left the bar empty - and made sure we all know it.
He's a huge Hogan fan and guy who does not like Tiger Woods.
To me, he's more of a story now than a story-teller; not to be bothered with small events .. "Wake me when it's a major." ... Yeah, he's earned it, but it's not my cup of tea.

 

I'm wary of some of the writers who get to the top of the business and then barely write about anything but golf for the latter part of their careers.

Obviously, he earned the right to have that as an option, but that doesn't mean we have to like it.

I can't wait to read the book.

 

Jenkins started covering golf in his 20s. It's his favorite sport, so why shouldn't he cover it all his life if he wants and people will pay him to do it?

 

I know Jenkins hates the NFL, but in 1973, after Semi-Tough was a hit, Sports Illustrated had him cover it for a season and he was fantastic. He must've begged off after that season, though.

 

Loved Jenkins' football years.
A big loss when he turned solely to golf.

 

Yeah, Reilly was definitely eyeing a similar path at SI.

 

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

 

The most famous, for sure.

 

Still, in my humble opinion, the greatest weekly magazine gamer in history.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1085606/index.htm

If they ever had an APSE for best paragraph, this, from Jenkins' story, would be the all-time winner:

"It was one of those insanely thrilling things in which a single player, seized by the moment, twists, whirls, slips, holds his balance and, sprinting, makes it all the way to the goal line. Rodgers went 72 yards for the touchdown, one which keeps growing larger in the minds of all. And afterward, back on the Nebraska bench, he did what most everybody in Norman, Okla. probably felt like doing: he threw up."