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Terms and conditions apply. The pride, passion and pageantry of college football lives here.

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our 3 Podcast.

This might be college football.

Head Rock. The great sports writer in the great sports writers in recent memory, maybe of all time with the Washington Post, perhaps, the Washington Post, perhaps best known for his writing of books, his famous 1986 book, a season on the brink became the best-selling sports book of all the time.

We had John, I would say, in the last couple of years, in the last 20 or 30 years of this show,

we probably had John on for every single one of his books, including last November when he was with us for the final time.

Pat 40, a close friend of John, did a beautiful article on him in his column in SI, and Pat joins us now as he watches the SEC tournament.

Pat, thank you.

I appreciate you making time.

I know you're covering a game, but we did want to get your reflection on why so many people

in sports from Mike Shushchevsky across the pantheon of the industry are talking about

John Feinstein today?

You know, Paul, he was a force. He really was. I mean, he was a powerful presence in college

basketball and in sports writing in general. He cared passionately about it. He was an inexhaustible

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