Bruce Jenkins
Sports Columnist
The Chronicle
About this Author
Bruce Jenkins has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1973 and has been a sports columnist since 1989. He has covered 27 World Series, 19 Wimbledons and many other major events, including the Super Bowl, World Cup soccer, NBA Finals, four major golf tournaments and U.S. Open tennis championships.
He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1966 and UC Berkeley with a B.A. in journalistic studies in 1971.
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.
By This Author
A pair of losses and no telling what’s next
October 6, 2018
Catching Houston won’t be easy for A’s
October 6, 2018
Yankees-Red Sox: A call to history
October 4, 2018
With any luck, A’s leave bullpenning behind
October 4, 2018
A’s against Yankees: East Coast wants Oakland to lose
October 2, 2018
Cal, Stanford unbeaten no more
September 29, 2018
Madison Bumgarner’s start a ho-hum affair
September 28, 2018
Mike Krukow on Giants’ next GM: Don’t forget the heart
September 28, 2018
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