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

+ Who doesn’t love anti-Brett Favre shirts? {The Angry T.}

+ Junior Seau getting owned by a bull. {With Leather.}

+ Evaluating April 2009 MLB predictions. {Vegas Watch.}

+ Twelve of the best pole-vaulting fails. Could watch these all day. {Epic Carnival.}

+ Non-sports: Why three young journalists joined the Texas Tribune. {Romenesko.} The staircase bookcase. {Apartment Therapy.}

Quotable:

“The NFL seems to be on the defensive here. Why, I don’t know. It’s not like no one knows that football is a violent game that can have some unpleasant consequences. I think everyone knows and accepts that. It’s not like a cigarette company, where they’re accused of trying to trick the public. No one’s accusing the NFL of whacking players in the head with ball-peen hammers as they sleep.

No one’s accusing them of anything, really, other than being exactly what they are: proprietors of a sometimes-violent game. Instead of denying and refuting, I wish they’d get out ahead of the issue, believe the research that’s in front of them, and put their energies towards finding ways to help make the effects less devestating.

Pretending that the sport isn’t violent, and that it’s a perfectly safe and wonderful activity for the human brain doesn’t help anyone.” – MJD