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

+ How Michael Jackson helped start the Patriots dynasty. {Shutdown Corner.}

+ A rather unfavorable review of “Fanarchy.” {FirstCuts.}

+ IHOP is joining forces with the NFL. {Pro Football Talk.}

+ Ken Rosenthal joining MLB Network staff. {Biz of Baseball.}

+ Non-sports: Web Site Story, via the brilliant minds at CH. {College Humor.} Latest report: Paul McCartney isn’t getting the Beatles catalog back. Darn.{Washigton Post.}

Quotable:

“We have been teased. As NBA fans, we were told we would get to see Ricky Rubio, one of the most exciting players on the planet, evolve into greatness before our eyes. Now plenty of people are suggesting — insiders around Rubio, the GM of the team that drafted him, the father of the player himself — Rubio may be headed back to Europe for a year or two.

All this just two days after Rubio stared into the camera and said he wanted to come to the NBA so badly he’d play for free.

Now, instead of elite basketball, we get to watch elite poker. Bluffs, counterbluffs and gamesmanship — perhaps, as sources suggest, with all parties: Rubio, his agent, and the Timberwolves working together to find a new NBA home for the young point guard.” – Henry Abbott