Jon Finkel is the award-winning author of Hoops Heist, The Life of Dad, Jocks In Chief, The Athlete, Heart Over Height, “Mean” Joe Greene and more. His books have been endorsed by everyone from Mark Cuban and Tony Dungy to Spike Lee, Kevin Durant and Chef Robert Irvine. He has written for GQ, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Sports, The New York Times and has appeared on CBS: This Morning, Good Morning Texas, and hundreds of radio shows, podcasts and streams.
Finkel’s Fast Five #154
The tremendous book, article, movie, meathead moment and quote you missed this week… BOOK: Ohio by Stephen Markley I really enjoy reading fiction but I admittedly find myself pushing those stories to the back burner in favor of non-fiction history and sports and science and event books that come out. So every four or five books I […]
Why Nighthawks Should Have Been Our First Great Buddy Cop Franchise
I regret to inform you that we were robbed of a surefire legendary buddy cop movie series starring Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams. How the hell did that happen? Glad you asked. Stallone and Williams played New York City cops in the 1981 thriller Nighthawks. In terms of a career timeline, here’s what you […]
My Recently Uncovered 6th Grade Rap Honoring the Late 80s Red Sox
We’ve moved a bunch of times and occasionally when I need something in the garage I’ll find myself fishing through an old box of stuff that my parents sent me that is basically junk from my childhood that they no longer wanted to keep in their garage. 99% of it is worthless. But oh man, […]
Meet Jon Finkel
Hey! To paraphrase Jay-Z, you could have visited any website or blog in the world and you’re visiting mine. I appreciate that. Here’s a little bit about me: I’m a husband and father and ocean swimmer and a guy with a sweet garage gym. I grew up in Boston (mostly), but we moved around a […] Read More about Meet Jon Finkel