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

+ Charles Barkley gets shoes thrown at him. {NESW Sports.}

+ Amare Stoudemire pwns Joel Przybilla. {Ball Don’t Lie.}

+ Congrats to the hardest working blogger in the game, Michael David Smith. He’ll be exclusive with AOL after the first of the year. {College Football Talk.}

+ Rick Reilly trying, and failing, to see why people hate Tyler Hansbrough so much. {ESPN the Mag.}

+Non-sports: A farewell to Sparks. {Hipster Runoff.}

Quotable:

“NBA insiders say it will never happen for financial reasons (owners don’t want to give up any of those precious courtside seats), but supporters believe that widening the floor — even by just a foot on each side — would improve the game by allowing for better spacing. It would open passing lanes. It would give players a little added breathing room, especially with the three-point line now just a few feet from the sideline.

If nothing else, it might cut down on all those whistles we’ve seen in recent years for players accidentally stepping out of bounds.” – Marty Burns on widening the NBA’s court