Sally Jenkins

Aug 13, 2024 | fredericknewspost.com | Sally Jenkins

The case of Jordan Chiles and her contested medal raises an interesting question: Why would any lawyer who prizes his reputation accept a job with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, that illegitimate warren that the International Olympic Committee, oligarchs and other dealers in suitcases of cash use as a legal veneer? The answer must be more than just free tickets.

Jun 17, 2024 | fredericknewspost.com | Sally Jenkins

The doctrinaires who would liberate college athletes by defining them as “employees” would in fact be making ditch diggers out of them. Picture a scenario in which 19-year-old Arch Manning has to abide by a labor agreement with the University of Texas that could limit his paid sick leave if he gets hurt, subject him to termination and arbitration clauses and classify his $90,000 scholarship as taxable work income even though it has no cash value. How does that improve his position?

Jun 6, 2024 | fredericknewspost.com | Sally Jenkins

Don’t let the W get in the way of your thinking on that flagrant foul against Caitlin Clark. The Chicago Sky’s Chennedy Carter should have been suspended by the WNBA for a game, and that’s just the basketball of it. Not women’s basketball, or rookie hazing basketball, or racially loaded basketball, either. Basketball. If it happened in the NBA, the league would have suspended her. Watch the replay again. The ball isn’t even in play.

Dec 19, 2023 | bendbulletin.com | Sally Jenkins

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor had a face clearly written on by the outdoors. The 10-hour days in the saddle as a girl on the Lazy B Ranch were there, and so was the shooting bottles off fences, and all the skiing and fly-fishing, the golf in every weather, until it seemed like her bone structure was chiseled by the wind. It’s a perilous thing to equate the quality of someone’s mind with their physical state, but in O’Connor’s case the two were inextricable.

Nov 26, 2023 | fredericknewspost.com | Sally Jenkins

From the very start of the season, the Washington Commanders stood on the edge of a gangplank. A new managing owner, Josh Harris, made it clear he would be appraising everything, while a coaching staff that had never done better than 8-8-1 set falsely high (and perhaps desperate) expectations with a quarterback who had made exactly one start. It’s difficult to see how that could have resulted in anything but a plunge into cold water for everyone.