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John Feinstein is one of the nation s most successful and prolific sports authors who has written 24 books to date His most recent work Are You Kidding Me written with Rocco Mediate was released on May 18 2009 and is presently on the shelf at bookstores everywhere In addition he is an award winning columnist and regular contributor in both radio and television John Feinstein is a 1977 graduate of Duke University and spent 11 years as a sports and political reporter with The Washington Post He has also contributed to Sports Illustrated The National Sports Daily ESPN CBS Sports and Golf Digest Presently he appears regularly on air at The Golf Channel and National Public radio and writes for The Washington Post Golf Digest and John Feinstein is one of the nation s most successful and prolific sports authors who has written 24 books to date His most recent work Are You Kidding Me written with Rocco Mediate was released on May 18 2009 and is presently on the shelf at bookstores everywhere In addition he is an award winning columnist and regular contributor in both radio and television John Feinstein is a 1977 graduate of Duke University and spent 11 years as a sports and political reporter with The Washington Post He has also contributed to Sports Illustrated The National Sports Daily ESPN CBS Sports and Golf Digest Presently he appears regularly on air at The Golf Channel and National Public radio and writes for The Washington Post Golf Digest and The Sporting News He resides in Potomac MD and Shelter Island NY site_link On an early morning in 1983 after the worst loss of his career 109 66 against Virginia amid the cries of powerful athletics boosters calling for him to be fired Duke men s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski went to breakfast at 2 00 a. PDF Five banners made m to vent with friends Sports journalist and Duke alumnus John Feinstein was at the table For Coach K the night at Denny s would mark a turning point in his career and for the team and eight years later the Blue Devils would win the first NCAA national championship in school history In Five Banners Feinstein tells the inside history of Coach K s forty two year career at Duke and the five NCAA championships from the first against Kansas in 1991 to the most recent in 2015 against Wisconsin With unparalleled access to Coach K the team and its staff Feinstein takes readers on a mesmerizing ride into the locker room and onto the court Full of intimate details personal memories and previously untold on and off court stories it is a book that only Feinstein could write Feinstein explores a basketball legacy that begins with his days as an undergrad Duke Chronicle reporter covering coaches Bucky Waters and Neill McGeachy who went 12 26 in one year as head coach includes the drought years of the 1980s the glory of the teams of the 1990 s and moves into the present day with John Scheyer s succession Drawing on new interviews Feinstein highlights the voices of Grant Hill Nolan Smith Christian Laettner Tommy Amaker and Bobby Hurley who each bring new insights into the championship years Throughout Feinstein unveils the momentous force of college basketball as a game of intense relationships and intimate conversations Candid revelatory and engrossing Five Banners is an essential book for all Duke fans and anyone who loves the college game Five Banners Inside the Duke Basketball DynastyMen s college basketball has a few schools who consistently have very good teams year in and year out One of these blue blood schools is Duke University and one of its alumni who has gone on to have a successful journalism and writing career John Feinstein has written a book on Duke s five championship seasons It seems hard to believe but the was a time when Duke basketball wasn t very good While there was a Duke team that made the Final Four in 1978 it is the 1986 team that lost the championship game to Louisville when Feinstein starts his journey into the start of Duke s rise to basketball royalty. Nonfiction Five bannersonthecheap Feinstein is considered to be one of the best writers on college basketball and for the most part this book shows the reader why Feinstein will take the reader inside the locker room and on the bench alongside legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski affectionately known as Coach K While Feinstein writes a lot about Coach K including the famous breakfast at Denny s after a loss there isn t the same level of detail to know the players That is a hame because other college basketball books written by Feinstein are outstanding in their portrayal of players. Five banners biographies memoirs book Instead this book focuses on the results and highlights of Duke s championship teams and seasons The writing is still crisp fast paced and done in a manner that the reader will feel like they are inside the venue While personally I felt it wasn t quite as good as other Feinstein books I have read on the sport it is nonetheless one that any Duke fan will want to add to their collection I wish to thank Duke University Press for providing a review copy of the book The opinions expressed in this review are strictly my own 1478026715