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

+ January Jones’ Halloween costume: Troy Polamalu. {FirstCuts.}

+ John Wooden turns 99 today. {The Dagger.}

+ How D-Leaguers are doing in the NBA preseason so far. {Ridiculous Upside.}

+ A review of Jon Krakauer’s Pat Tillman book. {KSK.}

Non-sports: Maurice Sendak: If you think “Wild Things” is too scary, go to hell. {San Fransisco Chronicle.} The lost prestige of nuclear physics. {The New Atlantis.}

Quotable:

“Baseball has thrown counterpunches at football’s burgeoning popularity for four decades. The lords of the game lowered the pitching mound five inches to boost hitting, instituted a designated hitter, likely tinkered with the baseball, looked the other way on steriods for awhile and started a wild-card system to enlarge the playoff field so that September was not merely ceded to football in the publicity mill.

But on playoff scheduling, baseball is timid. If the game has endured such a renaissance that Selig had been crowing about since the 1990’s, why not test it out and let it stand on its own against football? Baseball interest is legit and deep-rooted.  An old sportswriting colleague once said if somehow gambling could be banned, football would shrivel and die.” – George Castle