WASHINGTON — John Feinstein, one of the country's foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, including the groundbreaking "A Season on the Brink" about college ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Feinstein, one of the country's foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, including the groundbreaking “A Season on the Brink” about ...

John Feinstein, sports commentator and best-selling author, dies at 69. He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana ...

John Feinstein was born on July 28, 1955, in Manhattan. His father, Martin, was the executive director of performing arts at the Kennedy Center and general director of the Washington Opera.

John Feinstein had no tolerance for the banal, the bland, the placid. He was in your face. Whatever he said or wrote, it was straight. That’s why he and Bobby Knight, ...

John Feinstein was one of a kind. Take it from the guy who hired him. The famed sports author’s conviction provided thrills for his readers and challenges for his bosses.

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 ...

John Feinstein died March 13. He and his career — which might have been the same thing — began at The Chronicle. The Chronicle’s office on Duke’s campus sprawls across the top floor of a ...

John Feinstein, sportswriter, columnist and author of dozens of books, including his most famous, “A Season on the Brink,” which chronicles the 1985 Indiana University men’s basketball ...

Particularly in his younger days, Feinstein was a force of nature. When he asked for book leave to write “A Season on the Brink,” the prospect of having him out of the office for six months ...

John Feinstein, one of the country’s foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, died unexpectedly Thursday. He was 69.

John Feinstein — always a storyteller, whether via the written word or when chatting with other journalists in an arena's media room or press box — was working until the time of his death.