John Feinstein, the longtime sports editor and columnist of the Washington Post and successful author, died Thursday.
Feinstein was 69 years old.
The Washington Post said that Feinstein died at his brother Robert’s home in McLean, Virginia.
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John Feinstein on the golf channel during the first round of the players’ championship on the playing stadium at TPC Sawgrass on May 11, 2017, in Ponte Vedra Beach. (CY CYR / PGA Tour)
The cause of Feinstein’s death has not been disclosed.
Feinstein had filed a column for the Washington Post one day before his death about the Basketball coach of Michigan State, Tom Izzo.
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Washington Post’s career’s career started in 1977, but that had nothing to do with sport at the start. He was a night police journalist, but “quickly distinguished himself on the sporting pace”, according to the point of sale.
“He has covered a wide range of sports and developed a talent for deep supply that has fueled personality and dramatic stories on athletes, coaches and management,” continued the Bill.
While working for the Washington Post, Feinstein was also doing work for ESPN, NPR and Gold Channel. He also had shows on Siriusxm.
Feinstein also wrote more than 40 books, including the successful successful basketball book, “season on the brink”, which made its debut in 1986 after taking a full year of his Washington Post concert to follow the 1985 Hoosiers and their polarizing chief coach, Bob Knight.
Author John Feinstein looks at the action between Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore raves in the Ravens bench area in Heinz Field on December 26, 2004 in Pittsburgh. (George Gojkovich / Getty Images)
The book was a huge success, spending 17 weeks as a Best Seller N ° 1 after its release. And the occasional experts and readers loved the way Feinstein did not leave aside only one detail about how Knight was coach of his players during a season with an appearance of the NCAA tournament, but not a national championship.
The Hoosiers won Knight’s third and last national title as an Indiana chief coach during the 1986-1987 campaign.
The book was finally adapted to an ESPN television film, in first in March 2002.
Feinstein is a best-seller of the New York Times at 23 times which has reached the milestone of the publication of its 50th book, “The Ancient Eight”, which goes deep in football Ivy League. The book was released last year.
It was announced in November that Feinstein would join the University of Longwood as a broadcaster and teacher, providing color comments for ESPN + emissions for male basketball matches.
John Feinstein from CBS Sports Radio Network broadcasting from Radio Row in New Orleans during the 2013 Super Bowl. (John Paul Filo / CBS via Getty Images)
Feinstein’s achievements have been recognized with numerous prices and inductions, including the temple of the Basketball Naismith’s Basketball and the Temple of National Sports and Sports Terrains.
