Your 2025 Jenkins Medal awards winners! Wright Thompson (w/Seth Wickersham), Best Sportswriting; Billie Jean King (w/Michael MacCambridge and Sally Jenkins), Sports Legend; Roy Blount Jr. (w/Alexander Wolff), Lifetime Achievement. Program video (and more pics) coming soon!

Here's our appetizer for tonight's awards dinner. In 2016, His Ownself let us follow him around with a camera crew while he covered The Masters. He was irascible, opinionated and funny, as you would expect. Reflective, too. Watch it: youtu.be/t5Pt3W2CjI0?...

Remember when the Pardon the Interruption guys (Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon) sent us this shout out for Dan Jenkins and 2018 Lifetime Achievement medalist Dave Kindred? If you don't you should watch it because it's hilarious and will get you ready for Friday night! youtu.be/iev0fdtMzwI?...

Celebrate the craft of sportswriting and the work of Wright Thompson and around Blount Jr. Attend the 2025 Jenkins Medal Awards Dinner at The Penn Club in New York City on September 26. Also, hear Billie Jean King! Info and tickets available at cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a7e…..

Join our celebration of sportswriting and the 2025 Jenkins Medal/Best Sportswriting finalists at jenkinsmedal.com. Attend the 2025 Jenkins Medal Awards Dinner at The Penn Club in New York City on September 26. Info and tickets available at cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a....

www.jenkinsmedal.com Look back at our 2024 Jenkins Medal awards dinner, honoring Sally Jenkins (Best Sportswriting) and Grant Wahl (Lifetime Achievement): youtu.be/-ktJU6Lbxjk?.... Excited to hold this event in NYC next week. Tickets: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

Join us at the Jenkins Medal awards dinner on September 26 at the Penn Club in New York City. Roy Blount Jr. and Billie Jean King will also be recognized for their accomplishments and legacies. Tickets: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a7e

We're delighted to present Wright Thompson with the 2025 Jenkins Medal for Best Sportswriting. He won for his ESPN article Caitlin Clark and Iowa Find Peace in the Process, a 16,000 word opus, chronicling the senior season and developmental backstory of Clark as a Hawkeye.

Join us in celebrating Billie Jean King. In her legendary tennis career, King captured 39 Grand Slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles, including a record 20 Wimbledon championships. She was the year-end #1 player in the world six times. Tickets: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

We'll be honoring Blount for his contributions to the sportswriter's craft at the Jenkins Medal awards dinner as our Lifetime Achievement winner. Join us on September 26 at the Penn Club in New York City! Tickets: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

Roy Blount Jr. is funnier than you are. But don't feel bad because he's funnier than almost everybody. His book about hanging out with the Pittsburgh Steelers, "Three Bricks Shy of a Load," was declared a classic of American football writing and a masterpiece of New Journalism.

Join us in celebrating sports icon Billie Jean King “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by Life magazine First woman athlete to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom First individual woman athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Tickets: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

jenkinsmedal.com Join us at the Jenkins Medal awards dinner on September 26 in New York City. We'll be celebrating with fellow honorees, Roy Blount Jr.and Billie Jean King. cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

Seats and tables for the Jenkins Medal awards dinner will be on sale for two more weeks or whenever supply runs out, whichever comes first. Our event will be at the Penn Club in NYC on September 26. cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a.... Limited sponsorships available as well: [email protected].

The 2025 Jenkins Medal Sports Legend is Billie Jean King, sports icon and equality champion. Join us on 9/26 to celebrate her and the (forthcoming) winners of the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Seats, tables and sponsorships: available: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a...

BREAKING: The winners of the 2025 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting are Wright Thompson and Roy Blount, Jr. They'll join Jenkins Medal Sports Legend Billie Jean King at our awards dinner on September 26 in New York City. jenkinsmedal.com

May is the chief photojournalist at The Flint Journal and MLive, who has been committed to telling community stories in his backyard since 2003. Among other distinctions, May has been named the Michigan Press Photographers Association's Photographer of the Year five times.

Plenty of pro sports franchises have left their fans pining for success, but the Detroit Lions have been a "special" kind of bad. Given their recent turn of circumstances, bring on the hope. Jake May has a great story of a true fan. READ IT: www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...

By @DmoWriter "After the A’s announced they were leaving Oakland, a pair of lifelong fans set out to do something audacious: start a beloved pro baseball team of their own. Remarkably, they pulled it off. Now the Oakland Ballers need to survive." READ IT: www.theringer.com/2024/08/13/m...

Killingbeck documents her travels, insights and experiences on laurakillingbeck.com and through her email newsletter. She's been on the road in some form or fashion since she turned 18. "I wanted to understand the world from the inside out. I wanted to experience everything."

"Into the Wind" isn't your garden-variety sports story. For author Laura Killingbeck, the field of play is life and she is the ball. "In one supercharged moment on a bike, she discovered the power of her body in a way that finally made sense." READ IT: www.bicycling.com/rides/a60502...

Hockensmith loves stories that feature underdogs or overcoming adversity. He is a survivor of bacterial meningitis, which caused him to have amputations on both feet. During his 20-plus years at ESPN, he has emerged as a proud advocate for coverage of those with disabilities and addiction issues.

After his parents died in 2019, Josh Butler went viral for escorting his dogs onto the field for Michigan State's senior day. Now, the Mesquite native is proving his worth in the NFL with the hometown Dallas Cowboys, as Ryan Hockensmith describes. READ IT: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Craggs has worked as editor and writer for many outlets, most recently with HBO’s Game Theory With Bomani Jones. Prior to that: Mother Jones, Gawker Media and Deadspin. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and New Republic. More: tommycraggs.com.

How does sportswriting change as fans become more interested in wagers & prop bets than traditional win & losses? @tcraggs22.bsky.social‬ profiles Chad Millman, chief content officer of The Action Network, previously editor-in-chief at ESPN The Magazine. READ IT: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature....

Burnsed has been a Contributing Writer for Sports Illustrated since 2017. Other credits include BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, the NCAA's magazine and Turner Sports. His work was included in The Year's Best Sports Writing in 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024. More: www.brianburnsed.com.

Brian Burnsed profiles golfer Sam Bennett, who became a star at the 2023 Masters while trying to overcome his father's death. The subsequent year proved not to have been as smooth as his made-for-TV Augusta narrative wanted. READ IT: www.si.com/golf/sam-ben...

Bryant has been a Senior Writer for ESPN since 2007 and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006. His most recent book is Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original (Mariner Books, 2022). More info at howardbryantbooks.com.

Howard Bryant chronicles the "simmering fractures within the Fort Myers (FL) baseball community" which resulted in the collapse of a high school baseball team amid racial invective and two federal discrimination lawsuits. READ IT: www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Bamberger has written for golf.com since 2017. He wrote for Sports Illustrated for some 22 years before that. His work has appeared in three editions of Best American Sportswriting. His latest book is The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the Pros.

Michael Bamberger offers a heart-wrenching profile of Filip Krüeger, a good athlete, amiable chap and otherwise regular dude, out for a round of golf with this friends when fate intervened. Published in GOLF.com: golf.com/news/feature...

Join us, won't you? No better occasion to celebrate the sportswriter's craft as exemplified by His Ownself, Dan Jenkins. The Jenkins Medal Awards Dinner will be on Sept. 26 in NYC. Event information here: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a....

We cannot wait for this opportunity and celebration in September!

We are very excited to bring the Jenkins Medal ceremony to the Big Apple. More exciting news to come!

We're pleased to present the Best Sportswriting nominees for the 2025 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Get article links and all the details at jenkinsmedal.com.

New article/editorial response OnlineFirst: "On Rhetorical Theory and Criticism in Sport Communication" By Michael L. Butterworth, @burnto-butterwo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2167...

It's our honor to host the great Joe Buck for the 2025 Frank Deford Lecture in Sports Journalism. Join us on March 3 in the Dealey Center for New Media auditorium. Join us!

The McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society presents Revisiting the Paris Olympics: Mega Events, Media, and the Politics of Sport. Four editors of olympicanalysis.org to reflect on the most recent Summer Games in Paris with @burnto-butterwo.bsky.social. Join us on Feb. 27.

If you liked Katie's post as much as we did, you can count yourself amongst the nine percent of sports media consumers who don't mind when sports and politics mix. Read our recent Politics in Sports Media report to learn more about that cultural intersection. utexas.app.box.com/s/d4hp76vb05...

We're pleased to release the fourth annual Politics in Sports Media report, a quantitative and qualitative assessment of 2024 sports media at its cultural intersection with politics. TLDR-it's complicated (and nuanced [and surprising]). Get all the info: politicsinsportsmedia.org.

We are accepting Best Sportswriting submissions for 2025 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting through Feb. 3. All written work considered; from game stories to long features to blog posts. Must have been published in 2024. Entry form: utexas.box.com/s/bllbr63wm4...

Latest from @dvnjr and me. *How Dan Snyder views Commanders' run from afar: 'He f—-ing hates it' *How Snyder tried to blow up the sale to Harris at the eleventh hour *Nee stuff on legal cases, his life in London, and why Jerry Jones says "It was time for a divorce.” www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Female athletes excel in the NIL space thanks in no small part to TikTok, which enables them to connect with fans in ways that weren’t possible before the advent of social media. The public’s access to TikTok is, among many other things, a gender equity issue. My latest for @awfulannouncing: