Georgetown University Press is publishing McNamara's book about DMV hoops. He is the sportswriter killed in the Capitol Gazette shooting in Annapolis last year.
John was a longtime sportswriter who spent years covering high school and college athletics, and he had an encyclopedic knowledge of his beat. In 2007, when local basketball luminary Bob Dwyer died, John decided someone needed to document the game’s long legacy in the D.C. region, lest its most important figures pass before telling their stories. Then John was gone, too.