I can not watch basketball now without imagining how Bobby Knight would react to a play. NEARLY 20 years ago, John Feinstein, then a young sportswriter for The Washington Post, wrote a genuinely great book, 'A Season on the Brink: A Year With Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers.

I would recommend this book to anyone (even non-sports fan) as Feinstein reports on one of the most fascinating characters I have ever read about. Based on a book by John Feinstein entitled A Season on the Brink which detailed the turbulent 198586 season of Indiana University 's men's basketball team, led by coach Bobby Knight, the film became the first ESPN television film, premiering on. A Season on the Brink Author(s): John Feinstein Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks at 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, John Feinsteins. It is as much a character study and a book about ‘how badly do you want to win’ than a tract about the misbehavior of Bob Knight. A Season on the Brink is a 2002 made-for-television sport drama film directed by Robert Mandel. Feinstein is given unrestricted access to Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers for a full year (practices, flights, locker rooms). Unfortunately this book is about a college basketball coach so the stakes are smaller (do not tell Bobby Knight that) and the figure is real but at times seems stranger than fiction (sorry for using such a cliché phrase) thus it is merely considered one of the great sports books of the 20th century. Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks at 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, John Feinsteins A Season on the Brink remains the classic of.

If this book was about a general or a politician or even a fictional figure it would be considered one of the great books of the 20th century.

A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein