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

+ Rudy Fernandez won the fan vote and will be your last All-Star dunk contest competitor. {Bust a Bucket.}

+ A vote to move the Cubs to Mesa. {Hugging Harold Reynolds.}

+ The missing page of the Free Darko book. {TrueHoop.}

+ Ten Super Bowl subplots. {Dejuiced.}

+ Non-sports: An examination of gravity in Super Mario Bros. {Hypertextbook.} New Bon Iver track off that Dark Was the Night charity compilation. {Jonk Music.}

Quotable:

“I have always been skeptical of Congress’s involvement with steroids in professional sports (it’s all grandstanding, really), and as a lawyer I never would advise a client to cop to drug use under oath, but I still can’t help wondering what the PED discourse would have looked like since then if, on that fateful day before Congress, McGwire had said ‘Yes, I took steroids. Here’s why. This was my cost-benefit analysis. Now let’s talk about it’?

Initially, of course, it would have caused a firestorm, but that happened anyway. In the long run, however, the national conversation about performance enhancing drugs would have been elevated a bit, as we all would have had to deal with the fact that a guy all of America looked up to was taking them and being honest about them. Sure, some would have still called him a cheater and continued to beat the drum they’re still beating today. But maybe some others would have thought twice about the subject and the hysteria that still reigns would be diminished. Maybe his testimony would have led to a lot more thinking, reason, perspective, and compassion and a lot less bloviating when it comes to steroids. Of course McGwire didn’t do that, and he’s been in self-imposed exile ever since, his reputation in tatters, his Hall of Fame chances nil.” – Craig Calcaterra