Mike Jensen

I write sports columns focusing on colleges and Philly hoops. Over the years, I've covered Smarty Jones, World Cup soccer, and a memorable decade of John Chaney.

Mike Jensen writes an Off Campus column for the Inquirer on college sports. He writes across the landscape of Philadelphia sports, but specializes in Philly hoops, devoting a year-long project to it in 2017. A staff writer with the Inquirer since 1988, Jensen covered college basketball and football beats for 15 years, wrote about soccer from 10 countries on five continents, and was assigned to the Kentucky Derby the year of Smarty Jones. He won Eclipse Awards for his coverage of Smarty Jones and Barbaro.