John Feinstein, bestselling author and Washington Post sportswriter, dead at 69

John Feinstein, the longtime sportswriter and columnist for the Washington Post and a bestselling author, died Thursday. 

Feinstein was 69 years old. 

The Washington Post said Feinstein died astatine his member Robert's location successful McLean, Virginia. 

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John Feinstein connected the Golf Channel during the archetypal circular of The Players Championship connected The Players Stadium Course astatine TPC Sawgrass May 11, 2017, successful Ponte Vedra Beach.  (Cy Cyr/PGA TOUR)

The origin of Feinstein's decease has not been disclosed. 

Feinstein had filed a file for The Washington Post 1 time earlier his decease astir Michigan State caput hoops manager Tom Izzo. 

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Feinstein's vocation astatine The Washington Post began successful 1977, but it had thing to bash with sports astatine first. He was a nighttime constabulary reporter, but helium "soon distinguished himself connected the sports beat," according to the outlet's obituary. 

"He covered a wide scope of sports and developed a endowment for heavy sourcing that fed personality-driven and melodramatic narratives astir athletes, coaches and management," the obituary continued. 

While moving for The Washington Post, Feinstein was besides doing enactment for ESPN, NPR and the Gold Channel. He besides had shows connected SiriusXM. 

Feinstein besides wrote much than 40 books, including the bestselling hoops publication of all-time, "Season connected the Brink," which debuted successful 1986 aft helium took a afloat twelvemonth disconnected from his Washington Post gig to travel the 1985 Indiana Hoosiers and their polarizing caput coach, Bob Knight. 

Author John Feinstein watches the enactment betwixt the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Raves from the Ravens' seat country astatine Heinz Field Dec. 26, 2004, successful Pittsburgh. (George Gojkovich/Getty Images)

The publication was a immense success, spending 17 weeks arsenic the No. 1 bestseller aft its release. And experts and casual readers alike loved however Feinstein didn't permission retired a azygous item astir however Knight went astir coaching his players during a play with an NCAA Tournament quality but not a nationalist championship. 

The Hoosiers won Knight's 3rd and last nationalist rubric arsenic caput manager of Indiana during the 1986-87 campaign. 

The publication was yet adapted into an ESPN TV film, premiering successful March 2002.

Feinstein is simply a 23-time New York Times Best Seller who achieved the milestone of publishing his 50th book, "The Ancient Eight," which goes heavy into Ivy League football. The publication was released past year. 

It was announced successful November that Feinstein would articulation Longwood University arsenic a broadcaster and teacher, providing colour commentary for ESPN+ broadcasts of men's hoops games. 

John Feinstein of the CBS Sports Radio Network  broadcasting from Radio Row successful New Orleans during the 2013 Super Bowl.  (John Paul Filo/CBS via Getty Images)

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Feinstein's achievements person been recognized with galore awards and inductions, which see the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. 

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