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

+Men With Balls drops today. Rejoice. {Kissing Suzy Kolber.}

+ Full coverage of the LeBron VI’s dropping in Cleveland.  It looks cold. {First Cuts.}

+ Barry Horn vs. Neil Best. MSM blog war! {Newsday.}

+ Yet another Nate Silver profile. {Chicago Tribune.}

+ Non-sports: Why is Bob Dylan’s new album $130? {Gawker.} Alan Sepinwall’s “Mad Men” Season 2 finale recap. {What’s Alan Watching?}

Quotable:

“Last year, in a 30-team league, just six were under .500. In the West, discounting the NHL’s worst team—the Los Angeles Kings, who were all of nine games under .500— the other two “losers” combined to go a whopping five games under .500. Yikes! That’s because the NHL has devised a clever marketing ploy where at least based on a traditional look at the standings, your team is never really out of it.

If you win outright, you win a game. If you lose outright, you lose a game. But both teams gain a point by going to overtime. And since you can still win two points once you’re there, you might as well. Last year, nearly 20% of games did. The result is the weirdly ambivalent “OTL” column (that’s not Outside the Lines).

Overtime losses aren’t really losses. They are a point, and teams are happy to pick them up on the road. Talk to a player after a game and he’ll tell after a tough roadie, “Hey, we’re happy to get a point.” They won something. “OTL” is the section of ambivalence. Those aren’t real losses. They are, by any other name, a tie. The result is that in a 30-team league, since the league went to the new system in 2005, the league has averaged under 8 teams with a losing record.” – Chris Sprow, ESPN the Magazine