He covered golf and football for Sports Illustrated and published wry, rollicking novels about sports.
By Matt Schudel Matt Schudel Obituary writer Email Bio Follow March 8 at 9:54 AM Dan Jenkins, a sportswriter who brought an irreverent flair to his coverage of football and golf for Sports Illustrated and other publications and whose comic novel about pro football, “Semi-Tough,” became a best seller and a Hollywood movie, died March 7 at a hospice facility in Fort Worth. He was 89.
After joining Sports Illustrated in 1962, Mr. Jenkins became “perhaps the most influential writer in the magazine’s history,” Michael MacCambridge wrote in “The Franchise,” a history of Sports Illustrated. “Those who watched the golf at Oakland Hills,” Mr. Jenkins wrote in the Fort Worth Press, “saw the greatest player in the game win on what may have been the toughest Open course ever devised.”
Between his journalism assignments, Mr. Jenkins began to write fiction, publishing his debut novel, “Semi-Tough,” in 1972. It was written in the form of a diary during the week before the Super Bowl by Billy Clyde Puckett, a talented but incorrigible running back for the New York Giants by way of Texas.
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