Paul Harral explains in detail what UT's new Dan Jenkins Medal For Excellence in Sportswriting means and talks to His Ownself about the honor.
Writing for The Fort Worth Business Press, Harral notes:
Jenkins is known from here to Baja Oklahoma as one of the best sports journalists to ever grace the pages of a newspaper or a magazine and both fiction and non-fiction books.
“I get a tie with Red Smith and Ring Lardner, who have awards for sportswriters,” Jenkins said. “In fact, I've received the Red Smith from the AP sports editors and I am receiving the Ring Lardner from the Union League of Chicago the week after the Masters. Usually, you don't get these things when you're still vertical.”
The event also exposed many of us non-Horns to the Stark Center, a stunning collection of sports memorablia and papers stored in a huge, impressive archive. Jenkins pledged during the evening to leave some of his papers at the same place Harvey Penick's Little Red Book is housed.
I discussed with Gary Williams what it was like to see the book and read some of its contents, and Tweeted a few pictures from the night:
Besides hearing His Ownself @danjenkinsgd speak a few of us got to see & touch Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book housed at UT’s Stark Center pic.twitter.com/rFZNc3rLcK
— Geoff Shackelford (@GeoffShac) March 22, 2017