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

+ Alex Rodriguez has found it in his heart to apologize to Selena Roberts. How special. {Awful Announcing.}

+ The Basketball Jones puts on their own dunk contest at All-Star Weekend. Awesomeness ensues. {Ball Don’t Lie.}

+ Was the D-League dunk contest better than the NBA’s? {Ridiculous Upside Potential.}

+ Marshawn Lynch got arrested for guns in California. BEAST MODE. {Total Pro Sports.}

+ Non-sports: Here’s a sample of what Michael Jackson is auctioning off. {The Guardian.} Alec Baldwin’s skit with the Jonas Brothers on “SNL.” Good stuff. {TV Squad.}

Quotable:

“In the statistically insignificant sample of professional athletes I’ve come to know a bit, two patterns have emerged. The first is, they tell you meaningful things only when you talk to them in places other than where they have been trained to answer questions. It’s pointless, for instance, to ask a basketball player about himself inside his locker room. For a start, he is naked; for another, he’s surrounded by the people he has learned to mistrust, his own teammates. The second pattern is the fact that seemingly trivial events in their childhoods have had huge influence on their careers. A cleanup hitter lives and dies by a swing he perfected when he was 7; a quarterback has a hitch in his throwing motion because he imitated his father. Here, in the Detroit Country Day School library, a few yards from the gym, Battier was back where he became a basketball player. And he was far less interested in what happened between him and Kobe Bryant four months ago than what happened when he was 12.” – Michael Lewis