How did WashPost/Jenkins score a sports interview for the ages?

[Anonymous]

Any one-on-one with a sports icon is a get. But with all its twists and turns, this story is already in the history books (well in the sports section). Anyone know how Sally Jenkins got a deathbed interview with Paterno?

[Anonymous]

She's a rammed fune journalist--I'd guess that she had a longstanding professional relationship with him, and he had a lot of respect for her body of work.

As someone who always loves to read her, I'm delighted that she had a chance to do this important a piece.

[Anonymous]

"rammed fune"? Is this auto-correct gone crazy or do I need a better dictionary?

[Anonymous]

She must know how to relate to sports figures on a personal level. Her friendship with Lance Armstrong (and I suspect resulting lack of critical vision of) is well-known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"rammed fune"? Is this auto-correct gone crazy or do I need a better dictionary?

Yes, auto correct gone wrong. Damned fine. (I can't believe my phone didn't know "Damn.")

[Anonymous]

She talked about it on the Tony Kornheiser show last week - she thinks it was because the Post had had relatively light coverage of the scandal, she's a known quantity, and he liked her dad, Dan Jenkins.

[Anonymous]

Her Editorial today addresses thaheir sounds as isteve chalks it up to he had a good/close working relation ship with her father

[Anonymous]

Pp here- no more iPhone posts-sorry!
...addresses that. It sounds as if she chalks it up to he having a good/close working relationship with her father.

[Anonymous]

Definitely daddy. Power to her.

[Anonymous]

Daddy and the aforementioned "fairness" in dealing with scandal plagued sports figures.

[Anonymous]

I really like Sally Jenkins and like her sports coverage in the Post, but one (stupid) line in her story about the Paternos really stuck with me: She described his wife Sue as having "world-class cheekbones, even at the age of 78."

World-class cheekbones?

Who writes/ talks like that?