Best Sports Reads – August 10th

A Day in the Life of the Olympics — Most Overrated College Basketball Coach — Ireland’s Pride

A Day in the Life of the Olympics – Joe Posnanski, Sports on Earth

I think that’s probably right. I don’t think anyone cares — or should care — about the various inconveniences of being a sportswriter.

Roy William’s overrated? He’s the best ccoach ever at North Carolina – Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News

In discussing his vote in the most overrated coach poll, one of his Williams’ peers said to CBS, “He’s won at Kansas and UNC. But who couldn’t do that?” It’s the Phil Jackson argument. Jackson never won a championship without Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. That’s true. But no other coach ever won a title with either player, and several tried.

Critical Coaches: Who is the most overrated coach in the country? – Eye on CBB Staff

Basically, he said he still recruits hard because he thinks of himself as a good coach but not as a great coach, and that he never wants to have to find out if he’s good enough to win with average players.

Ireland swells with pride after winning boxing gold – Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports

 The most popular athlete in Ireland is female. Where else is that true? Where else could that be true? And it’s real, with men, grown men, old and young, coming because of what she can do in the field of competition. There was no stigma. This was boxing.