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

+ 25 more of the ugliest athletes of all time. And they say sports bloggers don’t report. {Hail Mary Jane.}

+ If you’ve yet to see it, here’s Matt Vasgersian’s flub on MLB Network last evening. {Bugs & Cranks.}

+ Pro Football Talk. Third paragraph. {Kissing Suzy Kolber.}

+ Zach Greinke is on the cover of the newest Sport Illustrated. He’s the fist Royal on the cover in 20 years. I love that this dude is on my fantasy team. {Joe Posnanski.}

+Non-sports: How not to take a sick day. {Holy Taco.} The 10 most influential films of the last 10 years. {Slash Film.}

Quotable:

“If you talk to Noah, and not just shout obscenities at him, you will find he is smart, funny and genuine in a profession (pro sports) that too often is full of the paranoid, boorish and self-involved.

I agree with his belief that there probably is not a person in the world who had a better time in college than he did. And I liked the garish getup he wore on draft night, although I took it as a goof, a jab at the prepackaged pretentiousness of professional sports. He just thought it looked “super funky.”

I’ll admit to being a hater, too. Sometimes I watch him play and think he looks like a neophyte soccer player chasing after the ball. There were times last season when I wondered whether he was cut out for the NBA game at all.

And like most haters, I wondered why he often acted like such a goof (with the yelling and chest-pounding routines on the court and the overeager cheeseball routines off it) when, given his bloodline (Yannick Noah, the uber-cool tennis star/reggae sensation, and a former Miss Sweden), he should be the smoothest guy in any room.” – Jon Greenburg, who is quickly becoming the best columnist in the city