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

+ Birdman meets Birdman. {The Blowtorch.}

+ The field for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge is set for next season. {The Dagger.}

+ TCU bans student reporter from using camera equipment after criticizing QB. {Wiz of Odds.}

+ Separated at birth: Jason Schwartzman and Sasha Vujacic. {Lake Show Life.}

+ Auto-tuning the news. {The Daily What.} Music and memory: How the songs we heard growing up shape the story of our lives. {Cognitive Daily.}

Quotable:

“Almost wherever he goes, Dikembe Mutombo is the loudest, gravelliest, tallest and smiliest person in the room. He can fill any amount of space — with laughter, stories, elbows or anything else. Everywhere he goes, people notice him, talk to him, and interact with him.

So there a thousand stories about Dikembe Mutombo. On the day he says he won’t play basketball again, these tales are popping up all over the place, and as you’ll see below, they are loaded down with comedy. That’s right! He brought that on, and his clowning should be celebrated!

But just as he’ll happily toss around a “Fat-rick Ewing” joke to rib an old friend, Mutombo has also been the most serious of NBA players. He has always been the NBA player most comfortable addressing the United Nations, administering polio vaccines, being name-checked in a State of the Union address or building a hospital outside Kinshasa from scratch. He has degrees in linguistics and diplomacy, and you can tell.” – Henry Abbott