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

+ Here’s that video of DeJuan Blair slamming Hasheem Thabeet to the floor last night during the Pitt-UConn game. {Ballhype.}

+ Bud Selig is taking zero blame for this steroids business. This does not surprise me. {The Sporting Blog.}

+ Jason Richardson decided to speed his brains out with his three-year-old son not in a car seat. Whoopsies. {Larry Brown Sports.}

+ Would Texas Tech really fire Mike Leach over some contract squabbles? Of course not. {Dr. Saturday.}

+ Non-sports: Police kill celebrity chimp who attacked a woman. {NBC New York.} Pirate Bay gets 50 percent of the charges dropped against it. Hooray for illegal downloads! {TorrentFreak.}

Quotable:

“Yeah, I think he probably will. In fact, I bet President Obama hasn’t slept since you were so unjustly wronged, Tim. Our nation is in turmoil. Lower the flags to half-mast. Give the kids the day off of school. Alert the national guard! Get Ryan Seacrest to host a telethon! Lead official David Hall should be tried for war crimes! SAVE US, PRESIDENT OBAMA! UNSHACKLE TIM FLOYD FROM THE CHAINS OF PAC-10 TYRANNY!

No one? Oh. Then I guess Tim Floyd’s just going to have to deal with the fact that, like every single one of us, we can’t just go around saying whatever we want to about other people in our industry. “ – MJD on Tim Floyd’s recent comments that Barack Obama needs to give college basketball coaches more freedom of speech