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

+ An interview with Tommie Harris about the media. {Mouthpiece Sports.}

+ Spreading the NBA’s wealth, brought to you by Bethlehem Shoals. {The Sporting Blog.}

+ … speaking of Shoals, see Rasheed Wallace’s take on Macrophenomenal. {Alana G.}

+ Denver Nuggets cheerleader makes announcers go speechless. {FanIQ.}

+ A case for expanding the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. {Kornheiser’s Cartel.}

+ Non-sports: John C. McGinley of “Scrubs” and “Office Space” fame on “American Gladiators.” {Fat.} The Get Up Kids reunited in Kansas City. Sweet. {Stereogum.}

Quotable:

“USC coach Pete Carroll is perplexed. For the fifth time in six seasons, his team has won nine of its first 10 games, yet this time the Trojans seem to have little chance of playing for the BCS championship.

In 2004 and ‘05, USC was undefeated and ranked first in the country at this point. In 2003 and ‘06, they were the highest-ranked one-loss team in the BCS standings.

But this year, with just three weekends of regular-season action remaining, the 9-1 Trojans sit a distant sixth in the BCS standings. They’ve actually managed to fall a spot since the season’s first standings release on Oct. 19, despite the fact they’ve won seven-straight games.

Carroll, a longtime playoff advocate, has been unusually outspoken in his frustration of late. He made waves a few weeks ago by saying the BCS ’stinks.’ (He’s hardly in the minority there.) But the USC coach got particularly defensive following a 17-3 win over Cal on Nov. 8 when reporters questioned his team’s inability to accrue ’style points’ in the low-scoring game.” – Stewart Mandel, Sports Illustrated