Good Reads: Olympic Wrap-ups and more

With the Olympics wrapping up, there are a few good stories to see:

Dan Wetzel just gets it

Plaschke has a nack for finding great stories and then writing pieces worthy of the topic. I liked this one about a Greek cab driver.

Adrian Wojnarowski defends Allen Iverson.

Jason Read
The story of Jason Read caught my attention late and I went back looking for stories about him. They weren't hard to find. Read is an Olympic rower, who was part of the rescue crew on September 11.
Story on him by:
Ian O'Connor
The New York TimesUSA Today's Jill Lieber
The Newark Star Ledger

The Posnanski collection:
On Maurice Greene

A kind of bouncy Olympic thought column that included the following:
This is another Olympic trick — giving silly sports genuine-sounding names. Instead of, say, calling a sport "running around with a ribbon," they call it "rhythmic gymnastics." A sport that is really "chasing around a guy on a bicycle," is called "individual pursuit.""Modern pentathlon," after all, sounds better than "five utterly unrelated sports."

on the little moments