![]() ![]() It is also familiar ground to Feinstein, a Duke is a perennial college basketball powerhouse, comprising the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Maryland, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Virginia and Clemson. Feinstein returns to college basketball in ''A March to Madness,'' which chronicles the 1996-97 season through the eyes of the nine coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He has focused on tennis players (''HardĬourts,'' 1991), major league baseball (''Play Ball,'' 1993), the Professional Golfers' Association (''A Good Walk Spoiled,'' 1995) and the Army-Navy football rivalry (''AĬivil War,'' 1996). With just a couple of exceptions, Feinstein has doggedly followed the same formula that made his first book so successful: pick a sport, spend a year covering it, then write about it with smart, snappy prose. Not coincidentally, the book also marked Feinstein as this country's keenest sports observer ''A Season on the Brink'' (1986) captured Knight in all his profane glory and quickly became a best seller. ![]() N 1985, John Feinstein, then a sports reporter at The Washington Post, spent the year with Bob Knight, Indiana University's basketball coach, and lived to writeĪbout it. ![]() Read Richard Bernstein's Review of " A March to Madness" (New York Times, John Feinstein spends a season with the nine teams of the Atlantic Coast Conference. ![]()
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