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

+ Big League Stew and Puck Daddy make the television. {Mr. Irrelevant.}

+ ESPN is creating a Mount Rushmore of sports. {Awful Announcing.}

+ The TNT crew on Charles Barkley. {Dallas Morning News Sports Media Blog.}

+ USC coach Pete Carroll is not too happy about his quarterback going pro. {EDSBS.}

+ Non-sports: If you haven’t seen it yet, Ryan Seacrest trying to high-five the visually-impaired dude. {Soup Blog.} The latest news on that Office spinoff, if it’s even an Office spinoff anymore. {Aziz is Bored.}

Quotable:

“Before I get to the two championship games this week, a very brief message to those people who were disappointed by the results of last week’s divisional playoffs. I’m not going to refer to those kinds of people as ‘B. Simmons,’so let’s just refer to them as ‘Bill S.”’You should have heard the insane bitching that came out of Philly and Arizona meeting the NFC title game. ‘Wah wah! They don’t deserve to be there! They aren’t really the best teams! The regular season means nothing! It’s just luck at this point! MY GAMBLING PICKS WERE ALL WRONG AND THAT ISN’T FAIR. I liked football better when it was predictable!’

Jesus Christ. You know, sometimes in sports, results don’t always flow in accordance with everything you know (or think you may know) about the game. And that’s exactly the f–king point. That’s why sports are fun to watch. No, the proverbial best team doesn’t always win. And you know why? Because the world would f–king suck if they always did. And maybe, just maybe, the supposedly lousy team like Arizona DID deserve to win a game or two. Maybe, despite all their past transgressions, they’re actually playing inspired football (and they are).” – Big Daddy Drew