STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Sorry to tell you that John Feinstein has died. He covered sports for The Washington Post and appeared regularly on this program. I just did a search and found that John and I talked on the air more than 100 times.
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INSKEEP: We're going to talk about those teams and more with commentator John Feinstein, who joins us once again. John, good morning.
JOHN FEINSTEIN: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: I just want to mention, for people who...
This man had a knack for book titles. Once, he spent a whole season following the explosive Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, and that became his book "A Season On The Brink." The title of his book on golf quoted Mark Twain - "A Good Walk Spoiled." His book on the Army-Navy football game was "A Civil War." For all of his writing, all of his work, he never lost his enthusiasm - as when John talked about the NCAA basketball tournament.
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FEINSTEIN: One game will end, and you look up on the scoreboard, and another game is tied with two minutes to go. And you go watch the ending of that, and you can have one spectacular finish after another.
INSKEEP: And he would follow them all. It would have been right for John to see a few more tournaments.
John Feinstein has died at age 69.
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