John Feinstein is the bestselling author of Living on the Black, Let Me Tell You a Story, Caddy for Life, Tales from Q School, The Punch, The Last Amateurs, The Majors, A Good Walk Spoiled, A Civil War, A Season on the Brink, Play Ball, Hard Courts, and two novels.  He writes for The Washington Post and Golf regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Feinstein lives in Potomac, MD, and Shelter Island, NY. read more...

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The story of ‘The Road to The Final Four’ and ‘Selection Sunday’; Tying up loose ends

For the past few weeks I’ve been saying and writing that those of us who love college basketball had better savor this coming Selection Sunday because it is likely to be the last one with the kind of suspense we have become accustomed to on the second weekend in March. When the NCAA expands the tournament—which I think is almost inevitable—teams like Illinois, Seton Hall, South Florida, Georgia
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Tiger carefully charting a controlled return; Responding to question about journalists, TV guys, cheering at games

Okay, so I was wrong about Tiger Woods.Don’t get carried away Tiger-apologists. I didn’t wake up this morning and become George Stephanopoulos or Robin Roberts.Back when he held his Tiger-and-pony show on February 19th I found one thing about the whole circus act encouraging: the fact that he said this was not the time for him to think about when he would return to The PGA Tour; that he needed
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This week's Washington Post column - Seth and Brad Greenberg; AP Top 25 ballot

Here is this week's column from The Washington Post ----------About two hours after Brad Greenberg's Radford basketball team lost to Winthrop in the semifinals of the Big South basketball tournament on Thursday night, his phone rang."You guys couldn't make a shot," Virginia Tech Coach Seth Greenberg told his big brother. "Tough to win -- even if you play good defense -- if you can't shoot."The two
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Duke - UNC game continues troubling season for Tar Heels; Six days to Selection Sunday

So, here we sit, less than a week from Selection Sunday with tournaments going on all over the place. What makes the next few days so cool is that all the bracketology becomes pretty meaningless because upsets blow up what everyone has been speculating about for the past two months.That said, this past weekend certainly provided us all with a raft of interesting story lines.I begin with Duke-North
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Feinstein-Wilbon feud of 2010 is over, will meet with Kornheiser as referee; Maryland fan behavior

I’m not exactly sure where to begin today or where to go once I get started.So, let’s start with something easy that—for some reason—people seem to be interested in. The Feinstein-Wilbon feud of 2010 is over. Mike called me on Wednesday and we talked and agreed to get together—with Kornheiser serving as the referee—next week. We still disagree on Tiger Woods and no doubt will continue to
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Updated - This week's radio segments

Yesterday I joined The Sports Reporters' Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin in the normal timeslot (5:25 ET on Wednesday's). Click the permalink, then the link below, to listen to the segment.  This week we talked about the Duke-MD game that was to be played Wed night (and as we now know, Maryland squeezed by), Maryland's best players in history, the Patriot League and the PGA Tour's disciplinary system.Click
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John Daly situation brings back the PGA Tour discipline policy; Comments on comments

I have been saying and writing for years now that The PGA Tour’s policy on disciplining players is a joke. Unlike other sports which routinely announce player fines and suspensions, the tour keeps them a deep, dark secret. The theory, according to Commissioner Tim Finchem, is that the tour is built on the players being thought of as gentlemen and announcing fines for profanity or misbehavior of any
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'Championship Week’ was one brilliant idea from ESPN - March Madness starts tonight; Wilbon talk

While the big-name college basketball teams are sorting themselves out over the next 12 days—the top teams trying to pin down high seeds; the mid-level teams in the power conferences trying to play their way from the dreaded bubble into the NCAA basketball tournament—this is also the time when the little guys get their moment in the sun.March Madness actually begins tonight. The Big South starts
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This week's Washington Post article on Herb Magee; AP Top 25 ballot

When Herb Magee first walked onto the campus of Philadelphia Textile University as a 5-foot-9, 150-pound, jump-shooting freshman, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the United States. There have been 10 presidents since Eisenhower and Philadelphia Textile is now Philadelphia University. The basketball landscape has changed in ways almost impossible to describe. Back in the fall of 1959 when Magee
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Olympic gold medal game leads to amazing joy and heartbreak

Yup, I cried.I cried when I saw Ryan Miller crying. I cried when they played ‘Oh Canada,’ and the entire arena belted out one of the great anthems ever written. I cried at the looks on the faces of the American players who should feel nothing but pride.The National Hockey League is thinking of not taking part in the 2014 Olympics? Are you kidding me? Let me tell you something: SPORTS doesn’t
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