Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins

Episode 313 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Washington Post sports columnist and feature writer Sally Jenkins. Her latest book is “The Right Call: What Sports Teaches Us About Work And Life.” In this podcast, Jenkins discusses the precepts in her new book; studying greatness; decision-making as a mechanism that can be trained like anything else; failure as a precondition for success; talking with Peyton Manning, Steve Kerr, Laird Hamilton, Jill Ellis, Muffet McGraw, and others for the book; what Jenkins learned from Pat Summit; the importance of conditioning, practice, discipline, candor, culture, failure, and intention; where Novak Djokovic stands alltime in tennis; why the PGA Tour-LIV Golf story really matters and what sports-washing really is; the future of sports journalism and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and more.

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