Sports column writer, author John Vinchain dies at the age of 69
John Financity, whose career made him as a column writer and author of the best -selling sports books one of the most prominent sports book of his time, died on Thursday. It was 69.
Vincenin died for natural reasons at his brother’s house in McLean, Virginia. Robert Vincenin said he had discovered the body of his brother.
John Vincentein was a regular sports column writer in The Post but he started his career as a night police reporter in 1977. He was widely known for covering university basketball, but he wrote about all sports, including golf, football and Olympic Simcriptions. Written by Golf Digest and was a frequent contributor to a variety of radio programs, with regular work on the national public radio.
“He was very passionate about things,” said Robert Vinchain. “Either people love or hate him – and on an equal footing.”
A column written by John Vincentein on the coach of Michigan State Tom Iso It was published on Thursday morning By post.
Financhetten wrote 48 books, 23 of which made the list of best -selling books in the New York Times, according to his website. His first book, “A season on the brink of the abyss”, who scored the basketball season at Indiana University 1985-1986, made a familiar name and spent 17 weeks in the first place in the list of best-selling books. The book detailed the training methods of Pop Knight and later converted to ESPN.
He also wrote a “good, spoiled march”, about a year in the PGA tour in 1994-1995, which was also selling No. 1, in addition to the book “Civil War”, a famous book on the competition of football in the army. He also wrote more than ten mysterious books in adolescence.
The “Old Eight”, about football in Ivy League, was published last year.
FEINSTEIN was honored with the Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Hall of the Celebrity of the Basketball in 2013. It is also in the National Sports Celebrity Hall.
Vincenin survived his wife, Christine, his son Danny and the daughters of Brigid and Jane, as well as Robert and his sister Margaret.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.