Sally Jenkins (born October 22, 1960) is an American sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post. In 2001, 2008 and 2011 she was named Sports Columnist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists. She is the author of a dozen books and received the National Press Foundation's chairman citation in 2017. Jenkins is the author of twelve books, four of which were In January 2012, Jenkins secured an interview with Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) football coach Jenkins co-wrote two best-selling autobiographies with cyclist Lance Armstrong and defended Armstrong even after he admitted to doping and taking banned performance-enhancing substances while vehemently lying that he had done so, and was stripped of his seven In 2005 Jenkins became the first woman inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. She has been named the nation's top sports columnist by the AP sports editors four times and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019.
She was previously a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.