<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Sally Jenkins</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/sports/columns/jenkinssally?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><description>Sally Jenkins</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[It's Best to Be Lucky and Good]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44967-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44967-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Usually the difference between winning and losing is wide enough that we can cling to the notion that the winner was incontrovertibly "better" than the loser. But at the Masters, there were two convincing performances and the difference between luck and skill was indistinct.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good News for Bears]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28574-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28574-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Promising more titles to come, Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson is the perfect front-woman for a team that hammered Michigan State in historic fashion.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, Losing Is Fundamental]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26373-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26373-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Losing is underappreciated. It has a bad name. Do we really think it's harder to win than to lose? We train our eyes on the winners, when maybe the ones we should be watching most closely are the kids who pull their jerseys up over their heads to hide their faces. Losers.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mulkey-Robertson Shines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21861-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21861-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kim Mulkey-Robertson has the charisma, demeanor and ability to be the face of a new generation in women's college basketball coaching.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not for Lack of Interest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19944-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19944-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   INDIANAPOLIS<br>If a university had catered solely to my "interests" as an 18-year-old undergraduate, the entire campus would have been converted into a giant bar offering cheap beer and free pool. My only textbook would have been Stephen King's "The Stand," and dining hall cuisine would...]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing Is Believing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55294-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55294-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Testimony on steroids on Capitol Hill has yielded these items: steroids shrink your organs, induce suicide and turn heroes into cowards, baseball officials into worms.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take Me Out to the Gall Game]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28391-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28391-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't seven active and former major leaguers, and a few officials, come to the nation's capital and speak plainly into a microphone before Congress on the subject of steroids?]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paper-Thin to Rock-Solid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5530-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5530-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With March Madness approaching --  that dollars and cents time of year -- Sandora Irvin is a reminder that basketball can be restorative, not just a revenue stream.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sign of the Times]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48373-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48373-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Laveranues Coles mess is a microcosm of how the Redskins operate in the Daniel Snyder era.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sorry Situation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17493-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17493-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jason Giambi's vague apology has nothing to do with remorse.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy Reigns]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64670-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64670-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The NHL is close to cancelling its season and instead of causing concern, the future of the league seems rather unimportant.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Game, Two Genders]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45754-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45754-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A lot of men and women will watch the Super Bowl next week but they probably won't be focusing on the same aspects of the game.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady Attacks Anxiety]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24944-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24944-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New England's Tom Brady doesn't measure up in the regular categories that people use to rate quarterbacks, writes Sally Jenkins.  It is Brady's ability to deal with anxiety that elevates him above most other players.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Real Genius]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5029-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5029-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bill Belichick has built a team without superstars and might actually deserve to be called a genius after leading the Patriots to a 14-2 record.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money Without Sense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32292-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32292-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The BCS remains an unfair system that delivers the biggest financial shares to a closed cadre of power broker conferences.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball's Sense of Fair Game]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15006-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15006-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's time to bust the funhouse mirror and get mad at Commissioner Bud Selig, and the rest of his arrogant extortionist pals in Major League Baseball for the Expos-Nationals mess.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold Standard No More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53582-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53582-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maybe the reason so many coaches have steered clear of the job at Notre Dame is that they got a look at the people they would be working for, and under what circumstances.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doping Is First in a Pandora's Box of Moral Ambiguities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33781-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33781-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[People have to put aside their outrage at Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds because there is something far more morally challenging than steroids on the horizon, writes Sally Jenkins, and it's called gene therapy.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecting the Dots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13398-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13398-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When delving deeper into the life of Ron Artest it becomes evident that players and fans have a lot more in common then either would think.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Baseball's White Elephant Is Running Wild]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43902-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43902-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/jenkinssally</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:13:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new baseball stadium project grows more illogical by the day, writes Sally Jenkins. The mayor has ignored the wishes of his constituency in order to please an affluent few while peddling the deal under a false pretense.]]></description><author> Sally Jenkins</author></item></channel></rss>