# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-feinstein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:08.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-feinstein"
name: "John Feinstein"
slug: "john-feinstein"
description: "John Feinstein was an American sportswriter, author, and sports commentator. A long-time sports reporter at the Washington Post, he also wrote numerous books and was particularly known for A Season on the Brink, published in 1986, which chronicled a season with Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team."
tagline: "American sportswriter and commentator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_feinstein_2010.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956-07-28"
deathDate: "2025-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             1.402597402597402
  historical:           5.323546666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JFeinsteinBooks"
    handle:    "JFeinsteinBooks"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1055420/"
    handle:    "nm1055420"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://jfeinsteinbooks.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Feinstein"
    title: "John Feinstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون فاينستاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون فاينستاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Feinstein"
    title: "John Feinstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Feinstein"
    title: "John Feinstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6232897"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3015792"
    title: "John Feinstein"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump