Author: J-Dub

Author and Managing Editor at Dubsism, a blog about life as viewed through sports, old movies, and too many concussions.

SBM Exclusive Feature: What We Know Now – Ten Things Soccer Needs To Do To Gain Popularity in America

Now that we are into the off-season for the “real” soccer leagues, it is time to give the American Major League Soccer some tips so it can actually become a “major” league.  One of my favorite sports blogs  recently did a piece on why soccer sucks and will never catch on in America. It its current… Read More SBM Exclusive Feature: What We Know Now – Ten Things Soccer Needs To Do To Gain Popularity in America

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The 2013 Dubsism All-Star Break Baseball “Sucks/Doesn’t Suck” Rankings

For me, the All-Star break has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This is the point when general managers acting as jockeys must decide whether they are contenders or pretenders; whether to go to the whip (trade for talent to augment a “stretch run”) or… Read More The 2013 Dubsism All-Star Break Baseball “Sucks/Doesn’t Suck” Rankings

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Three Crucial Facts About The Aaron Hernandez Situation ESPN Is Conveniently Ignoring

If you are a sports fan, you likely watch a lot of ESPN. Unless you spent the last three weeks at your time share on the dark side of the moon, you are nauseatingly aware of the situation embroiling former New England Patriot and current murder suspect Aaron Hernandez. But in the avalanche of the… Read More Three Crucial Facts About The Aaron Hernandez Situation ESPN Is Conveniently Ignoring

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Dennis Rodman Thinks He Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize – It’s Not Nearly As Ridiculous As It Sounds

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still ridiculous, but not as much as you might think.  To understand this, we have to break down yesterday’s article in the Washington Post. It’s been a busy year for Dennis Rodman, the former NBA bad-boy-turned-diplomat. Yeah, I know that first sentence screams this whole thing is going to be… Read More Dennis Rodman Thinks He Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize – It’s Not Nearly As Ridiculous As It Sounds

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The Dubsism Breakdown of the 2013 NBA Draft, or Why Your Team Blew It In 50 Words or Less

Realistically, the title should tell you all need to know, so rather than waste a lot of time with some sappy introduction, let’s just get down to how your team blew it’s draft. Round #1 1) Cleveland Cavaliers: Anthony Bennett, PF, UNLV Bennett is a solid pick despite what the pointy-heads at ESPN think. All… Read More The Dubsism Breakdown of the 2013 NBA Draft, or Why Your Team Blew It In 50 Words or Less

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A Dubsism Breakdown of the Ideal Assessment of the Aaron Hernandez Situation

As a blogger, I am an avid fan of reading blogs, if for no other reason than you can see so much great content and honest opinions that the mainstream media just won’t provide. The situation currently embroiling former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is a perfect example. One of my favorites blogs… Read More A Dubsism Breakdown of the Ideal Assessment of the Aaron Hernandez Situation

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Your Stanley Cup Champion Chicago BlackHawks: Where We Were Right And Wrong, and What the Future Holds

Back in March, fellow SportsBlogMovement member Ryan Meehan and I did a Blast-Cast about the Chicago BlackHawks in which the premise was the team which wins the President’s Cup (the team with the best regular season record) rarely wins the Stanley Cup. Yeah, about that… That’s the big difference between us and the turd flumes… Read More Your Stanley Cup Champion Chicago BlackHawks: Where We Were Right And Wrong, and What the Future Holds

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Dubsism’s 15 All-Time Hockey Enforcers and Their Fictional Cop Counterparts

When it comes to hockey, I grew up on the Los Angeles Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers of the 1970’s , which means I am a connoisseur of the knuckles-in-your-mouth style of play. There’s an art to sheer bad-assery; the trouble in hockey is that bad-assery is really limited to the realm of the skull-buster.… Read More Dubsism’s 15 All-Time Hockey Enforcers and Their Fictional Cop Counterparts

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Before We Get Carried Away…The Miami Heat Are Not The NBA’s Newest Dynasty

I know you are going to be shocked by this, but here comes another Dubsism rant that flies in the face of popular opinion and the bilge being pumped out by ESPN. First, let’s be magnanimous. The Heat won their second straight NBA Championship last night, and for that, I only have one word. Congratulations.… Read More Before We Get Carried Away…The Miami Heat Are Not The NBA’s Newest Dynasty

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The Dubscast, Volume 7: How Steve Stricker Became My Wife’s Favorite Golfer

  What do a fuel pump, a pork tenderloin sandwich, and Steve Stricker have in common? To know the answer, you going to have to listen to the story behind how Mrs. Dubsism and I discovered Wisconsin’s version of Mayberry, and how a character named Scotty the Auto-Repairman who gets support in the Dubsism house… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 7: How Steve Stricker Became My Wife’s Favorite Golfer

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The “Tebow Theory:” Eventually, Somebody Is Going To Build An NFL Offense Around a Quarterback Who Can’t Throw

With the arrival of Tim Tebow in New England, this seems like as good as time as any to explore in detail a discussion I’ve had with several football fans.  The NFL of the past few years has become a league infatuated with the passing game to a point where several offenses in this league… Read More The “Tebow Theory:” Eventually, Somebody Is Going To Build An NFL Offense Around a Quarterback Who Can’t Throw

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So, Have They Changed The Name of the City to Los Puig-geles Yet?

So, in the last week, I’ve been forced to come to the realization that Roy Hobbs from The Natural is actually a 22-year old Cuban guy who is built like a Mack Truck and runs like a Ferrari. America, meet Yasiel Puig, your next next honest-to-oh-my-fucking-goodness baseball phenom. The guy has been in the major… Read More So, Have They Changed The Name of the City to Los Puig-geles Yet?

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Why The Miami Heat’s Tattooed Piece Of Shit Is Rapidly Becoming My Favorite NBA Player

There’s a lot of irony in that headline, because I hate Chris Andersen. I always have, and for more reasons than that mohawked douche-hammer has ink. For those of you who don’t know who Chris “Birdman” Andersen is –  and we are guessing until about three weeks ago, that was most of you – he… Read More Why The Miami Heat’s Tattooed Piece Of Shit Is Rapidly Becoming My Favorite NBA Player

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SBM Exclusive Feature: The BLAST-CAST – Volume 9: Stuff We Expected And Stuff We Didn’t About The Baseball Season

Originally posted on Sports Blog Movement:
Episode 9 of the SportsBlogMovement Blast-Cast features Meehan and J-Dub discussing the major league baseball season to this point. We look back at our predictions, talk about things which have happened which we expected, things we didn’t expect, and offer a tough series of discussion questions. If you are…

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The Dubsism 2013 NFL Draft Review – What We Told Them vs. What They Did vs. What ESPN Won’t Tell You

Things to Remember: References to the “Kiper Theory” are ironically based on our Dubsism Anti-Kiper NFL Draft Board. The “Kiper Theory” is the one that states teams must take the best player available, regardless of team needs. We rate drafts using the proprietary formula of the Dubsism Draft Quotient. This formula rates drafts picks based on… Read More The Dubsism 2013 NFL Draft Review – What We Told Them vs. What They Did vs. What ESPN Won’t Tell You

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