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.

He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bob Knight.