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Dan Jenkins Had ItMy relationship with Dan Jenkins goes back decades, and it is a simple one. He wrote words and I read them over and over again. I have no strained connection with him that would somehow label me as more blessed or important for knowing him. I know people I like very much who knew him, that’s all. I ...

Jets Linebacker Says Media Twisted His Comments On Marshawn Lynch DancingApparently, no one learned from what happened to that Breitbart shithead: Quote Jets linebacker Jordan Jenkins correctly, or he’ll come after you....

Jets Linebacker Calls Out Breitbart Chud For Twisting His WordsJets linebacker Jordan Jenkins didn’t hide his feelings about what went down over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., from the creeping normalization of the KKK and its sympathizers to the neo-Nazi murder of a counter-protestor to the president’s refusal to call what happened for what it is....

Tiger Woods Melts Down Over Gentle Satire

The Players' Tribune justified its existence this afternoon when guest contributor Tiger Woods published a screeching rebuttal to a disposable piece of satire in this month's Golf Digest. Why rely on Twitter as the middleman for athletes' unhinged rants when you can get them directly from the sour...

The great Dan Jenkins, stuck in Fort Worth on doctor's orders, is missing his first golf major in 45 years. His daughter, Sally, is there with him, and her column on Friday was, to coin a phrase, dead solid perfect. [WaPo]...

Mankind's 10 Stages Of Drunkenness, According To Our Best Sportswriter

In honor of his new book (and in grudging acknowledgment of Frat Boy Thanksgiving), we give you Dan Jenkins's famous list, from Baja Oklahoma:...

Ben Hogan Isn't Walking Out Of That Sand Trap

And speaking of Dan Jenkins, our pal Bryan Curtis recently profiled him for Grantland. It's worth your time:...

The Masters Its Ownself

Dan Jenkins's His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir was published last week, which is as good an excuse as any to go spelunking through the back pages of one of our finest and funniest sportswriters. Here's a classic from the April 1985 issue of Golf Digest, anthologized in Jenkins's Fairways and Greens. Repri...