EXCLUSIVE: A NIGHT OUT WITH JOHN AMAECHI

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Friday 03/16 (Tourney) Quickie:VCU Saves the Tournament!
Published 3/16/2007 by DanShanoff.com at Dan Shanoff
... Finally: If you read one non-Tournament-related thing today, make it this amazing post from WithLeather's Matt Ufford about a night out with John Amaechi.

A Night Out With John Amaechi
Published 3/16/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Matt Ufford of With Leather had some drinks with John Amaechi, and writes fantastically about his impressions of the Man in the Middle. (If foul language offends you, consider yourself warned about a word or two.) It's pretty much a must-read.

Man In The Muddle : With Leather’s ‘Meech Musings
Published 3/17/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... As noted virtually everywhere else in the sporting blogosphere yesterday, With Leather’s Matt Ufford hung out with “Man In The Middle” author John Amaechi (above) after the latter’s Barnes & Noble signing in Downtown NYC the other day. While Ufford is effusive in his praise of Amaehci (”He uses words like “ethnocentrism” and “empathic” and speaks with refreshing candor. Every response he gave was infused with so much perspective that I found myself repeatedly thinking, “Yeah, why DO people care that he was a gay in the NBA?”) and makes the odd point or two that seems to have eluded Kenny Smith (”having a beach house in Malibu is a lifestyle. Being gay is a life.”), there’s one portion that at least a 6.0 on the WTF Richter Scale.