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

+ Why the Rays didn’t bring David Price in earlier last night? {Larry Brown Sports.}

+ Going deep on Greg Oden’s injury. {TrueHoop.}

+ The top 50 basketball commercials OF ALL TIME. {Naismith Lives.}

+ Basketball Prospectus’ season projections. Eek, the Bulls aren’t looking so hot. {Basketball Prospectus.}

+ Non-sports: Can bloggers save journalism? {On Point Radio.} Get to know Worrier. {Heave Media.}

Quotable:

“Indiana had become college basketball’s equivalent of Lehman Brothers, a proud institution rocked to its core by greed, outsized ambition and bad management.

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The story of Indiana basketball has the ring of a classical epic–flush with hubris, power, dishonor, revenge, sin and hope–but it’s also a contemporary morality tale, illustrating the landscape of big-time college athletics and the fate that can befall an entire university at the hands of the ethically challenged.

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Crean balances Midwest pragmatism with heaps of optimism. Here’s a man who doesn’t see the glass as half full. He sees it as overflowing. With Dom Pérignon. From 1975. The challenges, he says, have only hardened his resolve ‘to see this through.’ He is ‘pumped up’ by the reception he’s received from fans. The hard times that await?  ‘I didn’t take this job for the immediate–and I’ve had to remind myself of that at least eight dozen times–for where it’s at now. I took this for where it’s been and where it can possibly go.’” – L. Jon Wertheim, Tom Crean’s Big Red Challenge, Sports Illustrated