Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today.

+ One time I gambled with J.E. Skeets in Vegas. This other time he wrote an amazing Bulls Preview. If you haven’t been checking out any of his other NBA team previews either, you are a silly individual. {Ball Don’t Lie.}

+ Free Darko is attempting to preview every single NBA game this season. Excellent. {Free Darko.}

+ It’s like Robert Vaden never left Bloomington. {Inside the Hall.}

+ A couple weeks old, but an interview with Rick Telander about Heaven is a Playground. {SLAM Online.}

+ Devin Hester is ready to rock sometime soon. {Chicago Sun-Times.}

+ Non-sports: This is horrible news; “Mad Men” brings up Dylan, but factually?

Quotable:

“Sometimes being more accurate means you’re getting things right 52 percent of the time instead of 50,” says Silver. “PECOTA is the most accurate projection system in baseball, but it’s the most accurate by half a percent.” That half-percent, though, makes all the difference. Silver’s work, in both baseball and politics, is about finding that slim advantage. “I hate the first 90 percent [of a solution],” he says. “What I want is that last 10 percent.” – How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball To Forcasting Elections, New York Magazine