John Feinstein, sports commentator and best-selling author, dies at 69
John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who became the best-selling author of more than 40 books, including “A Season on the Brink,” an inside look at volatile Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bob Knight, died March 13 in McLean, Virginia. He was 69.
According to The Washington Post, Feinstein, who joined The Post in 1977 as a night police reporter, “soon distinguished himself on the sports beat. He covered a wide range of sports and developed a talent for deep sourcing that fed personality-driven and dramatic narratives about athletes, coaches and management. He also became a frequent commentator on NPR, ESPN and the Golf Channel, and had radio programs on Sirius XM.
“He wrote books about baseball, football, tennis, golf and the Olympics, as well as novels for young readers, but he was perhaps best known for his coverage of college basketball. Known for an indefatigable work ethic, Mr. Feinstein filed a day before his death a column for The Post on Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo.”
