Awards & Recognition

Jenkins was nominated twice by The Chronicle for the Pulitzer Prize: In 1992, for his work at the Barcelona Olympics, and in 2002, for baseball writing. He was named one of the nation’s top 10 columnists in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards, newspapers with circulation over 250,000, 1999; honored for best column nationally by the U.S. Basketball Writers (1996) and the U.S. Tennis Writers (1998, 2004) associations; and honored by the U.S. Tennis Writers for best game story in 2001, 2003 and 2005. He has also won national awards for baseball and football writing.