Latest from John FeinsteinGolfScottie Scheffler or Xander Schauffele? Golf’s impossible debate. The PGA Tour's player of the year award is a referendum between Scottie Scheffler's bushel of wins and Xander Schauffele's two major victories.September 4, 2024College BasketballThe NCAA, flailing and futile, can’t stop looking foolishNew event in Las Vegas will offer players up to $2 million in NIL deals.August 29, 2024MLBThese Oakland A’s deserve your respect for remaining respectableThe team’s owner is abandoning Oakland for an uncertain future, but his gritty team shows up to play every night.August 14, 2024OlympicsThis Olympic golf tournament isn’t worthy of the OlympicsThe commonplace, rote format for Olympic golf is not good enough to make it an Olympic sport. August 2, 2024GolfPerspectiveAfter an ugly Sunday at the U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy deserves a do-overAfter his latest heartbreak, Rory McIlroy didn’t act like himself. He deserves a bit of grace. July 14, 2024College BasketballPerspectiveDan Hurley stayed at Connecticut because happiness doesn’t have a priceHurley has every reason to be happy at Connecticut. Most importantly, he’s smart enough to know that.June 11, 2024College BasketballPerspectiveBill Walton, brilliant on the court, became basketball’s bardBill Walton, who died Monday at 71, was an artist on the basketball court and a poet behind a microphone. May 27, 2024GolfPerspectiveRory McIlroy stood by the PGA Tour. Why doesn’t it want his help?The decision not to bring Rory McIlroy back into a PGA Tour leadership role shows why the sport is in this troubled state. May 14, 2024College BasketballPerspectiveThe first college basketball coach I met was one of the bestDon Donoher was all class to coaches, reporters and 11-year-old John Feinstein.April 15, 2024College BasketballPerspectiveJohn Calipari was great until he wasn’t good enough for KentuckyThe coach met the outsized expectations in Lexington for as long as anyone, but eventually he and the fan base grew weary of each other.April 9, 2024Load more
