Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader, we’ve got a Stephen A. Smith update! To anyone who follows the sports media industry (read: all three of you), his very public demotion last month at the Philadelphia Inquirer had us wondering last week where the heck he was. (Best guess: snuggled up with a bag of cheetos in his million-dollar pad.) The Philly Daily News has the goods: Screamin’ A. ‘extended his leave‘ (read: chewed up all unused vacation days while pondering lawsuit) and then just didn’t show up for work Friday. Naturally, he showed up for his Sports Reporters gig on Sunday morning.

We keep getting told that this is far from over, but we don’t exactly know what that means. But we’ll say this – it won’t be easy firing a prominent black sports columnist, even though there seems to be ample evidence (ESPN radio gig, Sports Reporters, egregious factual errors) to do so.