Good Reads featuring Alan Webb and Todd Hamilton

Today column topics du jour are 21-year-old American miler Alan Webb and unlikely British Open champ Todd Hamilton.
 
Webb's return to the spotlight is chronicled by: Plaschke, Burwell , and Mike Wise.
 
 
Bob Ryan  and Bernie Lincicome's  were on hand for Hamilton's impressive emergence.
 
Lincicome's column has some gems:
"Not to be conceited or anything," Hamilton said, "but I think this is a real neat story."
"This is not fun," Montgomerie said. "This is not enjoyment. This is a job, and a horrible one."
Monty is still a grump.
 
It was apparently Kevin Scarbinsky's turn to write the Tiger Woods column.
 
Wetzel on Gail Devers.
 
Mitch Albom should stick to sports writing or heart warming stories about former professors.
 
Norman Chad is a bizarre man.
 
Posnanski laments the sorry state of the Royals and suggests some slogans. There's an entertaining Bush anecdote in it.
 
 
There aren't many writers out there that turn phrases better than Charles Pierce. His Boston Globe Magazine piece on the FCC is interesting with inclusions on WEEI.  I loved this line:
 
...when one pop star got up onstage at the Super Bowl, and he removed the business end of another pop star's bodice. There were children who saw most of the latter's right breast, that part at least that wasn't being covered by something that looked like an Aztec hubcap.

Austin American-Statesman story on Lance Armstrong's body guards.