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

+ Apparently, you can get a technical foul for slapping Kyle Korver’s butt. {NESW Sports.}

+ The Dagger’s 2008 year in review. {The Dagger.}

+ Larry Brown says it’s too early to count out Tony Romo. I agree. {Larry Brown Sports.}

+ Which college  conference dominates the NFL playoffs? {Simon On Sports.}

+ Non-sports: A review of last’s night premiere of The City. {Gawker.} Chicago’s violent year. {Chicagoist.}

Quotable:

“Tony Romo is a competitor. Terrell Owens is a competitor. Marion Barber is a competitor. Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, DeMarcus Ware, Jason Witten … all competitors. I think very few athletes ever reach an elite level like the NFL without being extremely competitive people.

What can happen, though, is that in a game like yesterday’s, when the outcome gets determined very quickly, the guys have plenty of time during the game to digest the sadness. The game started at 4:15 EST. By about 5:15, everyone knew that the Eagles were going to win. Say the team plane boards at around 8:15 … that’s three hours there for the initial sadness to wear off.

Or maybe they’re all just very Zen people, and they believe that right now is the only thing that exists. I don’t know.

I just won’t believe that the Cowboys players, as a whole, didn’t care about the outcome of that game. I won’t believe that they weren’t upset about missing the playoffs. I don’t buy it. Some people just get over things quickly, or find a way to pass the time on a team flight. Who knows?” – MJD of Shutdown Corner on the reports Cowboys players were laughing and clowning around on the team plane after their loss Sunday