His hatred for UK had no bounds......that's all I will say
UK hater John Feinstein dies at 68
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You actually said too much.
Good grief dude. What a disrespectful and unnecessary post.
I don't think he cared much for Bobby Knight either. Didn't he write "A Season on the Brink" , a book about an IU season (84 or 85) that was pretty rough? It seems like BK really turned against him after that.
I didn't disparage him. Only said he hated UK...which he did.....I'm not happy he died....
RIP........damn 68 is kind of on the young side :/
yes he did.
Still sad news to hear his passing. That was shockingly sudden and unexpected. Condolences to him and his friends and family.
It was 85-86 I wanna say. They won the title the next season I believe. They lost to Cleveland state 14 seed in season on the brink. I think. This is not Google or wiki certified lol
That's pretty young.
I hope he made his peace with God and that he's resting in peace.
That's all that really matters at the end of the day for each of us.
I hope he made his peace with God and that he's resting in peace.
That's all that really matters at the end of the day for each of us.
He was a Duke graduate. His book "Season on the Brink" about Bobby Knight was a bestseller. It lead to an NCAA rule change banning members of the press from being in the locker room of a team before or during a game.
I just feel that when someone passes the headline shouldn’t be something as insignificant as them disliking a sports team. The man had a soul, family and friends who lost someone they loved.
He wrote a book making the 1978 Kentucky team look evil and the Duke team was everything great.
He spent his entire career bashing Kentucky when he could.
In 2015 he was voting Virginia as number one over Kentucky.
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wouldn't agree with my post above probably but ask him about Feinstein.
Then people should probably be less of a jerk when they are living, so that people remember them more fondly.
That's why I didn't post the news when I heard it.
www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/detractors.html#feinstein
- "Perhaps never in the history of the NCAA basketball tournament have two teams that were so radically different met in the final. Kentucky was the ultimate basketball factory. There was no business bigger or more important in the state of Kentucky than Kentucky basketball. People there honestly thought their program incomparable, even though Adolph Rupp had won the last of his four national titles in 1958 and UCLA had won ten of them in the ensuing twenty years." - by John Feinstein, Forever's Team, Villard Books, 1990, pg. 154.
"Joe B. Hall, Rupp's successor, was a bland, humorless man who could keep the Kentucky fans happy only by winning the national championship." - by John Feinstein, Forever's Team, Villard Books
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Thanks for the link. Interesting read. I have not read the detractor section on that site.
Matt Jones had him on a few years ago and asked Feinstein if he still thought Rupp was a racist and he answered yes.
I don't like to get into that discussion. Knowing someone's thoughts is unknowable.
Feinstein was an unabashed hater of UK basketball, never missing an opportunity to disparage the program or even the university at large. So far as I am concerned, he lived 69 years too long. Good riddance to that miserable SOB. And cheers to us all!
As mentioned by several, this guy never got over Kentucky beating his beloved alma mater Duke in '78 championship, in fact he can single-handedly be held responsible for spreading the widespread misinformation that Kentucky fans are unreasonable, have championship expectations every season, and are not satisfied unless the Cats win the championship every season, ideas that are still repeated to this very day by his former fellow Washington Post-ians Kornheiser and Wilbon.
Eastern media elites do hate UK. ESPN along with these guys. I say they have hated us for years as a joke mostly. Sometimes it is true.
Was he married to Diane? She’s a big part of it too.
Axis of evil Saddam, Bin Laden, Feinstein.
I had no Idea that he was only 6 years older than me. In the early 90s, I would have thought he was at least 15 years older than me. He was obsessed with his hatred for UK and he was given a platform to spew his venom with no one defending UK.
Rest in peace to Mr Feinstein. Gods peace to your family and friends.
After you are gone, really all that is left is your legacy and what people thought of you. I am sure his family loved him and are in mourning after his passing. But, he did cause a lot of discomfort and maybe even pain to a lot of people in his time on Earth. Personally I hope to never be remembered for something like that. You have to wonder whether he regretted some of his vitriolic attacks as he was nearing his final hours. I'm sure we'll never know.
He hated UK and was a student at Duke when they lost the 1978 championship to us. I think I remember in an interview he said he hated UK ever since. That being said he was really a fantastic writer, in terms of his ability to write about sports in a book format, the very best imo. "Season on the Brink" I think is still one of the greatest sports books ever written.
I read his book about Red Auerbach "Let Me Tell You A Story" and a page or two was Auerbach talking Adolph Rupp. I don't know if it was in the book but Auerbach had once said that he would rather Rupp run UK through drills in practice than other teams play games.. Auerbach wanted to stress that he and Rupp worked together at various clinics over the years but wanted to say that Adolph Rupp didn't have a racist bone in his body. That Rupp gladly worked with players of all races, but he hated bad basketball players. Auerbach did add that Rupp was one of the cheapest men he ever knew and would do whatever he could to save a.nickel. Feinstein always wore his anti-UK bias on his sleeve but the fact that it was something he didn't cut from his book and just let Auerbach have his say and didn't filter it earned my respect a little bit.
I read his book about Red Auerbach "Let Me Tell You A Story" and a page or two was Auerbach talking Adolph Rupp. I don't know if it was in the book but Auerbach had once said that he would rather Rupp run UK through drills in practice than other teams play games.. Auerbach wanted to stress that he and Rupp worked together at various clinics over the years but wanted to say that Adolph Rupp didn't have a racist bone in his body. That Rupp gladly worked with players of all races, but he hated bad basketball players. Auerbach did add that Rupp was one of the cheapest men he ever knew and would do whatever he could to save a.nickel. Feinstein always wore his anti-UK bias on his sleeve but the fact that it was something he didn't cut from his book and just let Auerbach have his say and didn't filter it earned my respect a little bit.
He and I are the same age. I met him back in the 80's and asked him about a quote from his book. He was gracious in his answer to me knowing I was a Kentucky fan.
This is a really bad karma post for you dude. You can hate someone but this is way over the top. Grow up.
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