Good Reads: Varitek

Nice piece by John Couture on Jason Varitek.

Plaschke takes his turn on track and doping.

Dan Lebetard has a fun look at Shaq.

Caulton Tudor more or less says Carlos Boozer is a jerk.

Kevin Scarbinsky writes about summer hoops legend Sonny Vaccaro.

C'mon Mike Freeman. Are you that hard up for column topics?

Norman Chad mailed it in on Couch Slouch. I'm not even bothering to post it. Houston Chronicle's All Star Stuff is underwhelming.

Mitch Albom should stick to sports.

Posnanski on Maurice Greene.