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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | John Feinstein
Tom Izzo did it again. Just when you thought his era of Big Ten dominance might be coming to an end, he pushed this year’s Spartans to a 17-3 conference record, a 26-5 overall mark and an 11th Big Ten regular season title — winning the league by three games over second-place Maryland and Michigan. Izzo turned 70 in January, but in an era when older — and even middle-aged — coaches are hanging up their whistles, he shows no sign of slowing down.
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2 months ago | 
shepherd.com | Rick Telander |John Feinstein |Michael Lewis |Andre Agassi
No dynasty in sports history has been more dissected, debated, or discussed than the New England Patriots. And no reporter has done more groundbreaking investigative work on the franchise, its quarterback, Tom Brady, or its coach, Bill Belichick, than Wickersham. But, as much as I love this book for its scoops, it’s the narrative that Wickersham threads that made me say out loud to my wife, “This is freaking insane,” while I read it.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | John Feinstein
Fran Dunphy walked down the ramp inside the University of Dayton Arena in March 2019, answering questions about his final game as the coach at Temple, an NCAA tournament loss to Belmont. It was almost midnight, but Dunphy patiently answered questions for the Philadelphia media until no one was left.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
msn.com | John Feinstein
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | John Feinstein
Unless you were a true basketball junkie, you probably didn’t know Ernie Nestor, who died last Sunday at 78. But inside the world of college basketball, his death was both a shock and a tragedy. Nestor was one of those hidden gems in a sport that often overlooks those who don’t coach on TV twice a week“I always felt comfortable when I had Ernie next to me on the bench,” said former Wake Forest and South Carolina coach Dave Odom.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
brooklyndigest.org | John Feinstein |Jason Schott
The Ancient Eight: College Football's Ivy League and the Game They Play TodayBy John FeinsteinGrand Central Publishing; hardcover, 256 pages; $30.00John Feinstein has written forty-five books, including two #1 New York Times bestsellers, A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled. One of his recent books was Feherty, on the colorful golf personality David Feherty, which we reviewed in May 2023. He is a member of six Halls of Fame, and is a contributing columnist for The Washington Post.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | John Feinstein
Adjacent to the title page of THE ANCIENT EIGHT is a page-long list of John Feinstein’s remarkable sports books, which revolve around golf, basketball, football, tennis and baseball. Having read many of his works, it is safe to say that he often covers subjects that roam somewhat off the traditional path of the sports world.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fredericknewspost.com | John Feinstein
“Not bad for a running back.”That was the mantra Lamar Jackson repeated frequently during the 2019 season, his first as the Baltimore Ravens’ full-time starter and, as it turned out, his first as the NFL’s MVP. kAm*@F 46CE2:?=J 4@F=5?’E 3=2>6 y24<D@?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | John Feinstein |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
adn.com | John Feinstein
“Not bad for a running back.”That was the mantra Lamar Jackson repeated frequently during the 2019 season, his first as the Baltimore Ravens’ full-time starter and, as it turned out, his first as the NFL’s MVP. You certainly couldn’t blame Jackson for snubbing his nose at the 31 teams that had the chance to select him but ignored him.
