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

+ Charting out NBA archetypes. {Upside and Motor.}

+ Is Manny really going to be a Yankee? {Big League Stew.}

+ Charles Barkley on PTI talking about the Auburn football coach situation. {Hip 2 Da Game.}

+ Recreational Jewish Youth Basketball, an ethnography. {McSweeney’s.}

+Non-sports: The top 25 hip-hop songs of 2008. {Passion of the Weiss.} The periodic table of awesoments. {Dapperstache.}

Quotable:

“Forget about yards, touchdowns, pointless awards, running up the score and the myth that Tebow is just a running quarterback in a college offense: Tebow has NFL size and a first-rate temperament; is extremely mobile (duh); has completed two-thirds of his passes, finished in the top three nationally in touchdown percentage and yards per attempt and put up historically high pass efficiency ratings two years in a row; had the second-lowest interception rate and best TD:INT ratio in the nation this year; and has been consistently deadly on deep throws (as if they still threw deep in the NFL) — in two years, Florida has completed 65 passes of at least 25 yards, or 2.5 per game. He’s led the highest-scoring offense in the SEC two years in a row and is on the verge of winning a second mythical championship in three years. Obviously, his career aspiration is Frank Wycheck.

Again, I completely believe the gurus when they say Tebow won’t be a first-round pick. This is their job. It is the most counterintuitive job anywhere. My problem is this: The questions that surround Tebow re: his ability to read defenses and adjust to the pro game apply to every college quarterback making the transition. If Tebow hasn’t answered them enough to even project as a quarterback at the next level, then my god, who has?” – Matt Hinton, Dr. Saturday