Required Reading

• If you're going to read one thing this week, please read this.  Uncle Jamie LaRosa: Voice of the People.
• Ed McGrogan profiles the FeVer.  I may be in the minority here, but I think he is more talented than he is good-looking. 
• We all know how I feel about Fed.  But I think it's absolute cock that he's been pulled into this Forstmann mess.
• Stick a fork in the Williamses.  They're done!  Except when they're....you know...not.
• Neil Harman, whose stuff is always stuck behind that goddamnn Times paywall, does a WTF preview for the BNP Paribas Open site. 
• An ode to the French.  From an American, no less.
• No roof for Ashe.  But you know what we will shell out money for?  The demolition of the two best courts on site.  WELL THOUGHT OUT, USTA.
• Isn't it cute when Pete Bodo writes the way he thinks the kidz talk these days?  No, no it's not.
• You think you're a WTA fan?  Bullshit.  THIS is a WTA fan.
• The Aunt Pimmy and Mary C. quotes in this piece were cracking me up.  Just say "I DON'T FUCKING KNOW" and move on.
• Non-Required Reading: "And early breast growth in fourth grade combined with the soft chalky bones of a white woman have given me posture that would make even Quasimodo say, 'Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.'"
• Non-Required Reading:  Dead on.