Maybe a good time to start using alt text like disabled people are allowed to follow the news?

With the departure of a legend such as Sally Jenkins the Jeff Bezos bonfire has left nothing but ashes in its wake.

One more departure that makes me glad I dropped my subscription. I was an online subscriber for quite awhile. I miss the reporting, but those reporters and columnists are gone. I don't miss Hugh Hewitt and a few others, but most of them, I do.

Her dad is smiling down from, well, somewhere, I guess, as his wordsmith genes have evidently been fully passed down.

I wish I knew you. I would hope to be friends with you.

I’ve missed her writing since I canceled. Can’t wait to see her work in The Atlantic!

After a couple days' thought, I have to say the smarm and bullshit on this is, uh, chest high. Credit yourself for bringing young women into the sports section, and then abandon them to the techno-fascists, while taking a victory lap AND licking Bezos' boots? Literary pursuits indeed.

I don't do sports, don't know Sally Jenkins, but what a wonderful, wonderful farewell. I know her a little now. Thanks so much for sharing it. Hearing the voice of a strong, caring, hilarious, connected writer is a precious experience. Especially these days.

(wish I hadn't seen this) seek out her piece on Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. If you have some familiarity with them the time you invest reading it............❤️🎾

putting it on my list! thanks!

Wow.

Whiskey and fried pickles in Mississippi in the aftermath of a hurricane 🌀 is highly underrated.

I'm not sure there is anyone whose writing I enjoy more than Sally Jenkins.

She sure can write.

I can vouch for the fried pickles with Makers Mark. Yum!

Wow. Never heard of her before just now, but that is some seriously good writing. Thanks for passing it along. @sallyjenx.bsky.social: sorry @washingtonpost.com became untenable. Looking forward to your next work. And to repeat, great exit note.

Find her writing on Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova

she's a legend. well worth your time to look up her past work (and look forward to her future work).

It's mostly on me that I never heard of her, ofc, but it's a little on the WaPo, too. I was a subscriber for quite some time (before Bezos dropped to his knees before Trump) and I visited multiple times daily. Never saw anything by her in all of those many "you might also like" sidebars.

Here's a gift article for you. It's one of my favorite pieces of hers. wapo.st/4mchZkV

Thank you!

He looks like a Marlborough man ad...

Thanks for this. Reading it now. Makes me think of great stories on boxing -- another thing I cannot abide but must admit provokes some really good writing.

P.S. Just now realized, for the first time ever, that "bestride" can be read as "be stride" but also "best ride."

love it when that happens!

One of the greatest Post Sports beat writers ever.

Always such an incredible writer.

Her Dad was a legend, too.

Wait until she finds out about her new bosses at The Times

??? She’s going to the Atlantic (not owned by the Times).

She's much more optimistic about the future of that paper than I am.

Sally is simply extraordinary. Enjoyed my conversations with her without exception. Smart, relentlessly honest, a person of impeccable integrity. I wish her great happiness in her new role. (And thanks for mentioning my son-in-law who I know also thinks she’s terrific.)

Sally is a gem. So this is just one more reason to never read the Post again, and why I’m glad I cancelled my subscription when Bezos took it over.

Brava. I read her columns for years, right up until I canceled my WaPo subscription when they kissed the ring. Looking forward to reading her work again.

Wishing @sallyjenx.bsky.social all the best! Thanks for making my sports fan experience better over the years! I had a Wapo subscription since the early 80s up until 2024. Kornheiser and Wilbon are still my fav sports writers, but I've really enjoyed her columns a TON over the past two decades+.

This is beautiful.

Incredible note. Details, quotes, tightly written — a lede that captures you. She is one of a kind. And she captured perfectly what keeps so many reporters in the newsroom.

This is almost impossible to read on mobile. Begging reporters to please use Alt text for accessibility.

This is rich. She blocked me a couple of months ago when I noted that Post employees had free will and could leave if they didn’t believe in what Bezos was doing.

And so she did

And The Atlantic scores another of the best from the flailing and failing WaPo.

I am happy for her that she will write for the Atlantic. It will allow her to continue to write incredibly thoughtful columns/stories about all aspects of sports - political, government or life events that impact sports or are impacted by sports. She is one of a kind & her departure will be felt.

Fuck Bezos

but did she have some shots again, to see a glorious new washington post?

Written with warmth, elegance, and an eye for telling detail. You would expect nothing less from the incomparable Sally Jenkins.

I’m old enough to remember “It’s not about the bike”.

The Post to The Atlantic well-worn path reminds me of how the KC Athletics were the AAA prociders for the NY Yankees in the late 50s and early 60s