Afternoon Headlights

FNL Draft: The "Friday Night Lights'' executive producer has a lot in common with the general managers at the NFL Draft. They're all looking at their teams, weighing whether to keep older players at the risk of sticking with them one season too long or drafting new, unproven talent. Let's sure hope Taylor Kitsch makes the cut. He may be 28(!), but he's certainly still got all the right moves, on the field and off. (Live)

Star Quality: William Rhoden says with Mark Sanchez, the Jets add some charisma. (And then some!) Read his column HERE. Sanchez is on Twitter now(!) and will be throwing out the first pitch at tonight's Mets game vs. the Marlins.

Times Bare: There are 8 million stories in the naked city, and two Brooklyn rockers brought theirs to the heart of it all -- Times Square. Matt Johnson, 23, and Kim Schifino, 26 -- the two-person indie band Matt & Kim -- are the talk of the music-video world after debuting their clothes-shedding "Lessons Learned." (NYP)

Malcolm in the Middle: Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith is among a handful of political leaders in Albany who will be responsible for the fate of same-sex marriage in New York. He is facing pressure from his church, which has a socially conservative tilt and opposes it. Read Jeremy W. Peters' report HERE.

A Chat on the Davenport: In Sunday's National report, Monica Davey visits Eldon, Iowa, which once served as the background for Grant Wood's "American Gothic," to better understand how this plain-Jane state finds itself at the front lines of the same-sex marriage debate HERE.

Off and Running: Meanwhile, county officials across Iowa began accepting marriage license applications from same-sex couples on Monday morning, making it the third state to allow such marriages. Read more about it HERE.

Raising Boys: In Sunday's "Modern Love" column, a transgender parent wonders what kind of men her sons will become HERE.

Bullied to Death: On his "By the Numbers" blog, Charles M. Blow writes about two 11-year-old boys in two different cities who buckled under the weight of unrelenting homophobic taunts and hung themselves. To fully understand the scope of this pervasive bullying, he analyzes the data from recent studies HERE.