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

+ Breaking: Barack Obama does indeed wear shorts to ball. {The Dagger.}

+ Check out DeShawn Stevenson’s new Abe Lincoln tattoo. {Truth About It.}

+ Scary: USC football player injured lifting weights. {Tirico Suave.}

+ Rex Ryan benches David Clowney over Twitter comments. {FanHouse.}

+ Non-sports: Thom Yorke starting a new band for fun. {Radiohead.com.} Google Wave is almost here. {Mashable.}

Quotable:

“Excluding the Giants, the other three teams that received first-round byes in last year’s playoffs are a combined 1-8 so far this season. And that one victory was when one of those three teams, the Steelers, eked out an overtime victory over the Titans, another of 2008’s struggling top seeds.

Obviously it’s yet another reiteration on the point that it’s exceedingly difficult to stay at the top tier in the NFL. Of these three teams, only the Titans lost a significant free agent in Albert Haynesworth. The Panthers and the Steelers, however, are falling prey to weaknesses that were evident even as they excelled last season. For the Panthers, it’s the fact that Jake Delhomme is consistently mistake-prone. For the Steelers, it’s an inability to run the ball that has kept them from being able to put teams away when they have them on the ropes. And as anyone who watches the league knows, letting a team hang around will come back to hurt you more often than not. “ – Michael Tunison