Good Reads: Hodgepodge

Plaschke is one of the few people that might make me interested in reading about swimming. I'm already kind of sick of Michael Phelps.

Is Mike Ditka serious? Running for the senate? In case people forget, there are some football coaches that are very smart, but quite a few of them, Ditka included don't seem to be. Two words: Jesse Ventura.
Go back to shilling for the people that send me spam. In the interest of fairness these folks disagree with me.

Bill Simmons delivers his standard.

Michael Wilbon is one of seemingly hundreds of sportswriters that thinks Pat Riley is still coaching the Heat.

Tony Kornheiser writes essentially the same column as Wilbon. Good thing they don't do that on TV.


If you only know Stephen A. Smith as the guy that yells on TV, this might surprise you. He's actually a pretty good writer. See for yourself.

Thomas Boswell thinks baseball is in its best shape it a while.


Posnanski uses the phrase "up your nose with a rubber hose" effectively. How many columnists can say that.

Wetzel gears up for the second half of Sox-Yankees... er... baseball season.