If you’ve been a regular reader of Dubsism, you know we’ve been a member of the Sports Blog Movement for over a year now. In the last few weeks, we have added several new members, which means SBM is on its way to becomimg your one-stop shop for all the independent sports information you can’t… Read More New And Exciting Changes on Sports Blog Movement!
Without a lot of undue fanfare, I’m just going to get to the reasons… 1) It Exposes The BCS For Being A Complete Sham This is what happens when you have a half-playoff, half-bullshit system. It’s no secret I am an anti-BCS guy; I’ve devised my own solution to this problem. But since the Dubsism… Read More Two Undeniable Reasons Why Northern Illinois In The BCS Is GREAT Thing
Originally posted on Sports Blog Movement:
Bowl season is upon us, and here’s your chance to stack up your college football chops against a group of people who make almost $38 dollars a year writing about sports. To join the challenge, simply go here and sign up, or send an email stating you want to…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This list was completed based on who has been ruled ineligible for post-season play as of the date we made the original prediction (August 30th, 2012). Bowl matchup predictions were made based on our conference finish predictions and traditional bowl contractual allegiances. Taking all of that into consideration, here’s the full rundown on… Read More The Dubsism 2012-2013 College Football Bowl Predictions – The How Wrong We Were Edition
The tectonic re-alignments enveloping college football are limited to the big dogs…like Ronald Reagan’s economic theory, there’s a “Trickle-Down” effect. With the pending dissolution of the WAC, and the seemingly imminent cancellation by the western teams that were going to join the Big East in 2013, this becomes an even more wide-open map in terms… Read More Your NCAA Conference Re-Alignment “Risk” Map – The Non Automatic Qualifiers Edition
With their 41-34 win over Oklahoma State last night, Baylor retains the College Football Heavyweight Title. Now, comes the fun part. By finishing 7-5, Baylor looks to make some sort of low-to-middle bowl game, and bowl games are the best chance for the belt tot get out of a conference. Can Baylor keep the title… Read More Your Current College Football Heavyweight Champion – Still Baylor
It is time to talk about some hard realities in America today. Obviously, what happened yesterday in Kansas City is a tragedy by the classic definition of the word. The not-so-obvious tragedy which is going to unfold in the near future is that the deaths of the individuals involved here will not be remembered properly,… Read More What We Need To Learn From The Jovan Belcher Tragedy
For the fourth January in a row, we here at Dubsism will be handing out our coveted awards for various acheivements in the world of sport. If you are unfamiliar, you can check out the two previous Dubsy awards here, here, and here. But the one thing we are doing differently this year is opening the floor for… Read More It’s Time To Submit Your Nominees For The 2012 Dubsy Awards
Now that the regular season has ended for the majority of college football, many coaches heads have already rolled, and most of those are really no surprise. Joker Phillips, Kentucky Gene Chizik, Auburn John L. Smith, Arkansas Frank Spaziani, Boston College Tom O’Brien, North Carolina State Jeff Tedford, California Derek Dooley, Tennessee Danny Hope, Purdue… Read More What We’ve Learned From This Football Season So Far – The Inaugural Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
There’s all sorts of polls out there for determining who is #1 in college football. But what if college football determined its top dog the same way boxing did? You are #1 until somebody beats you. Rather that wait for next week’s BCS poll, we here at Dubsism have taken the boxing-style approach. In other… Read More Your Current College Football Heavyweight Champion – the Baylor Bears
Tyler Raborn from Sports Righting.com was right…he said I would be updating this map regularly, and not even a week later, here we are. Now that Louisville is the latest defection from the Big East, several new factors have come into play. 1) Don’t look now, but the ACC seems to be interested in making… Read More Your NCAA Conference Re-Alignment “Risk” Map – Updated Yet Again
Originally posted on jsportsblogger:
This series of articles will celebrate (or laugh at) some of the worst professional sports teams of all time. I will focus on teams within my lifetime so expect the worst from the 1970s to present day. We’re gonna win Twins, We’re gonna score. We’re gonna win Twins Watch that baseball…
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism’s own J-Dub and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. As you may have noticed, the National Hockey League is currently not available for our viewing pleasure.… Read More Guest Column: Six Important Facts About The National Hockey League And Its Stupid Lockout
Do you remember the the old saying about one picture being worth a thousand words? Well, this picture destroys at least three assumptions. 1) All Cheerleaders Are Hot Apparently at Notre Dame, chicks who look like a “short bus” version of Jan Brady get to wave the pom-poms, even if they don’t provide any of… Read More Now That Notre Dame Football Is Relevant Again, It’s Time To Start Shit-Talking The Irish
I admit I’ve been fighting this battle for decades now. But I also know it’s a losing battle. As the business of sport has swelled to gargantuan proportions, it has to pay the bills somehow. I don’t watch NASCAR, so I really don’t give a shit about the fact their cars and racing suit look… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Sports Sponsorship Has Officially Gone Too Far
The good people over at Deadspin were kind enough to point this out; there’s so much wrong here I’m not even going to start listing them. All I’m going to say is that I have been a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers dating all the way back to Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, and… Read More No Wonder Everybody Thinks Laker Fans are Dipshits
Do you remember the board game Risk? If you don’t there’s really something wrong with you. Anyway, with the continuing re-alignment of college football conferences, it occurred to Mrs. Dubsism that the college football world is beginning to resemble a Risk map. Now that Rutgers and Maryland have opted for the Big Ten, New Jersey… Read More Your Updated NCAA Conference Re-Alignment “Risk” Map
For those of you who want a football playoff, for those of you who love brackets, and for those of you like me who suck at contests like this and just want a bit more torture, we here at Dubsism are ready to oblige. After all, who says you can only have a bracket in… Read More The Dubsism NCAA FCS Football Pick ‘Em Challenge
Now that the Los Angeles Lakers have hired a new coach, we can take an exhaustive look at what really happened in what has become a complete train wreck. The whole situation has become a public relations nightmare, and both sides are only making matters worse by their jockeying for the high ground. Because of… Read More The Post-Mortem on the Lakers/Phil Jackson Debacle
The shirt really says it all. Let’s say you’ve never been to Baltimore and you were curious about it. There’s a reason why everybody left it. The Colts left for the bucolic splendor and corn-fed beauties of Indiana. The Bullets left to end up as the Washington Wizards, the NBA’s consistently minor-league franchise. Baltimore… Read More Summing Up An Entire City In One T-Shirt
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