As someone who covered Bob Knight’s tumultuous last two seasons at Indiana University, I was fortunate enough to speak with John Feinstein a few times. He once told me that people often asked him if he hated Knight.

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

John Feinstein wrote more than 40 books, including “A Good Walk Spoiled” (1995), about professional golf, and “A Civil War” (1996), about the Army-Navy football game.