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

+ Charles Barkley returns to TNT, and has an apology for all of us. We forgive you, Charles. {Outside The Boxscore.}

+ Matt Snyder breaks down the Bears’ offseason needs. {FanHouse.}

+ For the love of God, yes, it really is Shaq on Twitter. {Sesquipedalis.}

+ NBA pop culture comparisons. I do indeed believe beef jerky is playing for the Spurs. {the Blowtorch.}

+ Non-sports: Netflix might have streaming-only subscriptions next year. {Gizmodo.} Looking back on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” {The Star-Ledger.}

Quotable:

“Baseball, boxing, and just about every other major sport, haven’t drastically changed over the years, but football looks much different. Baseball–minus the steroids era–is pretty much the same game that was played in the 1920s. But football was a radically different game in the 1920s. At its highest levels it was an exciting game, but it was more of an endurance sport (players often played the whole game, offense and defense); passing was a smaller element because the ball was wider and more difficult to throw; and kicking played into strategy much more (it wasn’t unusual to punt on first down to backup your opponent). I wanted to give people a context to appreciate it, and to understand how football has evolved. It is virtually impossible to compare statistics and there isn’t much film footage, even of Grange, the greatest player of that era. Through my book’s narrative, I try and give modern readers a sense of the game, and the drama playing on and off the field.” – Gary Andrew Poole in an interview with HHR about his new book The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange, an American Football Legend