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

+ Reporter mistakes blog named after Charles Barkley for an actual Charles Barkley blog. {Sir Charles In Charge.}

+ Sweet Ken Griffey Jr. tee. {Big League Stew.}

+ Ricky Rubio in a Gillette commerical. {Canis Hoopus.}

+ This bro really likes LeBron James. {Hoop Doctors.}

+ Non-sports: Facebook tries to out do Twitter. {PC World.} Beatle experts discuss how Michael Jackson’s death parallels when Lennon, Elvis died. {Examiner.}

Quotable:

“Translation: If you’re not with the BCS, you’re against the BCS. Sadly, there is little evidence that arguing for a playoff is a weapon of mass destruction pointed directly at the BCS, which in itself is a kind of fetal playoff early in its gestation. The possibility of bringing ‘88 back and going pure bowl system does not exist because people don’t tend to like to turn off faucets that spout cash, and that is precisely what the BCS has been and could continue to be for quite a while. Money in hand tends to stay money in hand, and therefore the BCS ain’t going anywhere as long as people like watching football on television.

As problematic as this is for someone who sees the flaws in the system, I can’t help but stick up for the system in one respect: the BCS, while not a championship system (i.e. a playoff,) does attempt to create a compelling matchup to end the season that more often than not crowns something like a winner. (Watch your step or you’ll trip over all those qualifiers.) The old bowl system makes no such effort, and is pure exhibition from which sportswriters and other assorted poll voters extracted their pick for the finest team in the land that year. This sometimes went very, very poorly, and if you care to talk about how poorly it could go, you can ask 1994 Penn State about the virtues of the old bowl-only system.” – Spencer Hall