In a world where technology has given every person an outlet for their voice, the Sports Blog Movement seeks to make those voices stronger by giving them an environment where they can draw on those with similar interests in sports so they may maximize each other’s potential and provide a unique source of independent content… Read More Sports Blog Movement: One Year Later
If the mere thought of the “Dubs-eteria” doesn’t inspire gastronomic terror, then the following menu items certainly should. The only defense we can offer is that these dishes still aren’t as lousy as anything you can get at Olive Garden. Appetizers: The Baseball Writer’s Association of America “Poo-Poo” Platter It doesn’t even come with a… Read More If Dubsism Were a Bad Restaurant…Get Ready For Sports Stories as Menu Items
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. By now, we all know the story of the Notre Dame linebacker and his fictional girlfriend. the problem is the more we discover, the less we know. As this continues to unfold, as of this writing there are some big questions for which I have yet to… Read More What Is The Real Reason Why Manti Te’o Did What He Did?
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If you aren’t familiar with the Ex-Kickers Round Table, you can read their biographies here. In short, the Ex-Kickers Round Table is SBM’s panel retained to give insights on the NFL and whatever other topics they might stumble into. Your moderator is Ali Haji-Shiekh. Ali Haji-Shiekh: Well, gentlemen, we…
If you want to get a long and pointless discussion started, just bring up the subject of internet bullying. One of the things that makes that argument pointless is that it ignores real bullying, and to ignore real bullying is to ignore the occasionally hilarious stories it produces, like this one from the Ventura County… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Pissing Somebody Off Has A Whole New Meaning
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FACT: In three years at Tennessee, Peyton Manning never beat main rival Florida. FACT: Peyton Manning now owns a 9-11 playoff record as a starting quarterback. FACT: In 8 of Manning’s 12 career playoff appearances, his team has failed to win a single game. FACT: Peyton Manning is 0-4 in…
In the history of sports, many franchises have changed cities; so many in fact that you may not know some of the more famous ones. In 1903, the original American League Baltimore Orioles headed for New York, where they were called the New York Highlanders until 1913, when they changed their name to the Yankees.… Read More Is The Most-Relocated Franchise In Sports Moving Again?
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Craig Biggio, who will not be headed to the Hall of Fame this year by Ryan Meehan The news came down today, not much of a surprise as Baseball’s Hall of Fame 2013 class was empty. Not a single player met the standard 75% minimum requirements to enter the…
Of course they were…for 12 out of 13 weeks. There was a brief moment in the 2012 college football season where the Golden Domers wore the legitimate shine of being ranked #1. To be fair, there being over-rated at all other times this season was a function of the fact that they played a schedule… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Was Notre Dame Over-Rated?
In the wake of last night’s crushing at the hands of Alabama, this blog can easily be seen as “piling on.” Those who might say that would be 100% correct. Guess what, Notre Dame? Today, America is savoring your dismantling because the vast majority of America hates you. Eyeball-popping, color-changing, bile-spewing hatred, and you bring… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: Notre Dame Football
Editor’s Note: Mr. Rockford is a private detective based in Malibu, California. We here at Dubsism have retained Mr. Rockford at his standard rate of two hundred dollars a day plus expenses to investigate matters of crime and other general shadiness in the world of sports, then report back to us when needed. If you would… Read More Guest Column: Jim Rockford on How and Why To Tell The Difference Between Jets and Giants Fans
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by J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Blogs are not like radio and TV stations, which in order to maintain their FCC licenses are required to air a certain amount of public affairs programming. That is no excuse for us as a citizenry to be uninformed. In that spirit, the Sports…
Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the nominations for the awards were done exclusively by an internal committee. This was the first year we allowed nominations from the… Read More The 2012 Dubsy Awards
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While most of you probably thought that I meant that he got a new head coaching job, that is not at all the case. Phil Jackson can now add fiance to his list of responsibilities. Phil Jackson popped the question to girlfriend Jeanie Buss. The couple announced the engagement on her…
Let’s start with the college guys who still had jobs as of our last update: Mike Price, UTEP What We Said: After going 8-4 in each of his first two years, Mike Price has clinched his seventh consecutive losing season at UTEP and has no contract for next year. Color him toast. What Happened: Price… Read More What We’ve Learned From This Football Season – The Aftermath Of “Black Monday” Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Los Angeles Kings Win The Stanley Cup For purposes… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2012
With their 49-26 win over UCLA in the Holiday Bowl, Baylor heads into the 2013 season still holding the College Football Heavyweight Title. The Bears will next defend the belt on September 7th, 2013, when they host the University of Buffalo.
Let’s face it. For the regular six readers of this blog, I’m guessing a lot of you picture me as a Homer Simpson-ish character. Well, I don’t work at a nuclear power plant, Mrs. Dubsism does not have eight-foot tall blue hair, and you’d have to replace Homer’s love of Duff beer with some cheap-shit… Read More What You Would Expect From A Dubsism Christmas Post
Obviously, this piece is being written in the aftermath of the horrific event at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before I go anywhere with this, I’m going to quote fellow Sports Blog Movement member Patrick Young who really encapsulated this terrible tragedy in relevance to a sports blog as well as I think it can be… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: When Tragedy Gets Sports Used As A Pulpit For Failed Politics
Remember two months ago when the buzz was that the Chicago Bears were a Super Bowl caliber team? Yeah, about that… Another football season in Chicago starts out with high hopes, and yet another football season in Chicago looks to end with the Bears barely making the playoffs (and most likely only to see an… Read More Why The Chicago Bears Need To Fire Lovie Smith Now, and Why They Won’t
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