Join Michael in his conversation with Sally Jenkins about her new book, The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life, which explores seven fundamental principles behind great decision-making gleaned from her decades-long career as one of the great sports writers of our time.

Sally Jenkins has been a Washington Post columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of the Associated Press Red Smith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sports Journalism. 

In 2005 she was the first woman to be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

About Our Guest

Sally Jenkins, a sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post, rejoined the newspaper full-time in summer 2000. She previously worked for the newspaper from 1983 to 1989.

Before rejoining the Post, Jenkins was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Smithsonian, GQ, Tennis, Golf Digest, and ESPN magazines.

Jenkins is the author or co-author of 12 books, including “The Real All Americans,” a nonfiction account of how American Indian students at the Carlisle School used football to compete with the Ivy League; “The State of Jones,” (with historian John Stauffer) about southern Unionism in the Civil War; and “Sum it Up” (with basketball coach Pat Summitt) about a coach’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Jenkins is a graduate of Stanford University. She is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, and lives in New York.