+ Rupert of TGOWF was at Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl book reading last evening in NYC. Details of which you can get at here.

+ FanHouse’s Michael David Smith studied Darren McFadden’s breakout game this weekend and has concluded he is a great runner, but not a great running back. Yet.

+ Dr. Saturday takes the Ernie Davis Nike shoe fiasco and flips it on its head.

Quotable:

“-There are some things that you say among your own, that you wouldn’t necessarily say in mixed, or more formal, company. Are we all non-stop liars and deceivers, hiding our true selves and living under frost?

-No s–t Obama’s support in the black community benefits from widespread frustration therein. Rage, even. That doesn’t mean, though, that Obama himself is made of black rage. That’s what we call a syllogism, and it’s faulty.

-Yes, for athletes and celebrities there’s no such thing as private anymore. Everything in a digital format will eventually find its way onto the interwebs. Josh Howard forgot that, and it’s only going to add to his woes.

-But it’s not like other athletes don’t say, or feel things like this. And while you can say that they should keep it to themselves, and leave it out of the workplace, is the problem Howard’s mouth or his attitudes?

-So ridicule Howard if you will, or praise him. Call him a buffoon, a throwback, or an inadvertent combination of the two. It’s up to you whether this is an embarrassing gaffe or a damning utterance, a gotcha moment or some loaded s–t-talking. All I know is that, if this surprises you at all, you don’t know much about this country. Or about Josh Howard’s inability to reconcile straight talk and public relations.“ — Bethlehem Shoals of Free Darko pretty much owning the Josh Howard YouTube video siutation of yesterday