Being that the holiday season is upon us, there is a lot of thought begin given to gift-giving. If you are reading this, then you must be thinking, “Gee, what do I get for the sports blogger in my life?” This allows for another of our comparison pieces with a list published by the good… Read More Ten Pointless USB Devices Compared To Their Equally Useless Sports Figures
Rumors have been circulating for a while now about the future of future NFL Hall-of-Famer Peyton Manning. We all know the situation; his neck has been surgically rebuilt twice, and there are serious concerns as to whether he can ever or even should play football again. Coupled with the fact the Colts have collapsed so… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath vs. Dan Aykroyd – Point/Counterpoint on Peyton Manning
Lots of stuff has happened since we originally started this Coaches’ Death Watch a month ago. Some of it we saw coming, some of it we didn’t, and some of it is simply inexplicable. There’s the guys who bought it before we ever published the inaugural death watch issue. Granted, we messed up when we… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/26/2011 – The Up-To-The-Minute Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
For the third 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 and here. But the one thing we are doing differently this year is opening the… Read More It’s Time To Submit Your Nominees For The 2011 Dubsy Awards
RIP, Vasily Alexseyev. Vasily Alexseyev never looked like Mr. Universe. He didn’t even look like one of those Nordic strongmen you see on ESPN9. He didn’t have the sculpted, rippling muscles nor did he have those six-pack abs that look like you could grate cheese on them. Instead, in his prime in the 1970’s, this… Read More Today, The World Lost a Hero for Fat Guys Everywhere
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism 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. Normally, Dubsism doesn’t write these sort of preview posts. The reason is there’s already 10,000 other lousy hacks doing… Read More Your Week 12 NFL Preview – The Thanksgiving Edition
1) This Year, the Entire BCS Argument is Moot Name a team outside of the SEC that can beat Alabama, LSU, or Arkansas…I’m waiting… 2) We Sort Of Forgot About Miami I think we all know why the scandal that gripped Hurricane football dropped off our collective radars. But now,for some reason, the University of… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/19/2011
Last night, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski became college basketball’s all-time winningest coach, notching his 903rd career victory. This is a accomplishment worthy of note, and Coach K deserves the accolades being heaped upon him today. But before you think I am one of those willing to put him on a pedestal, you might want to consider… Read More Despite Mike Krzyzewski’s Accomplishment, I Still Don’t Have Any Respect For Him
1) OK, We Get It – Aaron Rodgers is Crazy Good I’m trying to make sure all you media people understand this. You can all stop with the stories telling football fans how good Aaron Rodgers is. We get it. All of the people you are telling this to are in fantasy football leagues in… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/12/2011
I think we all know this has been a tough couple of days in the world of sports. I think we’ve all had enough scandal and death lately. I think we’ve all had enough lockout talk. But out of all the sorrow we’ve seen this past week, I deliberately waited for a few days to… Read More The Day I Became One Of Joe Frazier’s “Boys”
“If we as a society cannot protect our children, then we are pathetic.” – Matt Millen, Penn State DT 1976-1979 So…this is how it ends. As I wake up today; the first day in my 43 years in which Joe Paterno is not the head coach at Penn State, I can’t help but ask myself… Read More The Lesson We Desperately Need To Learn From the Penn State Situation
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of our File Dump, we here at Dubsism believe that when we have just too many good jokes about somebody that we haven’t gotten around to using, and then their career is over, we just can’t let all that good material go to waste. According to several… Read More File Dump: The Houston Nutt Edition
1) The Penn State Situation I’m not going to get into the minutia of this disgusting affair now, if for no other reason than I want to see if somebody hits the nail on the head about why this played out the way it did. As horrible as this story is, there is also a… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend In Football 11/5/2011 – The “I Can’t Believe This Is Happening” Edition
It’s no secret that this blog has not been friendly to Dodgers’ owner Frank McCourt. We’ve been the home to the Frank McCourt Death Watch, during which we have compared him to a parasite, insinuated that he may be one of the worst human beings in history, and had noted sports manager Joe McGrath author… Read More Frank McCourt: The Final Days of the Regime Are Finally Here
We here at Dubsism, in our ever-present search for the absurd, have come up with photographic proof that Vikings’ defensive end had a career in movies before he became the most over-rated player in professional football. Go back to the 1988 college football recruiting classic “Johnny Be Good.” Look for the character “Bad Breath.” The… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Jared Allen’s Early Film Career Discovered
Geno Auriemma is an angry guy. When he’s not busy calling all of you “misogynists,” he’s blaming Notre Dame for all the re-alignment madness currently gripping college football. I mention this only because I know the legions of college football fans have been on pins and needles wondering about the ramblings of a women’s basketball… Read More Geno Auriemma: The Collapse of the Big East Is All Notre Dame’s Fault
It’s been a busy week here at the Dubsism offices. without going into great detail, the bottom line is we are a couple days behind a story we’ve been following all summer. In other words, America’s long national nightmare is over: The McCourt’s have finally reached a settlement in their divorce which kept the Los… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: One Legal Ball-Kick Down, Several More To Go
Former 49ers head coach and NFL legend Bill Walsh always said the four most powerful words in leadership were “I believe in you.” The irony is when a coach here’s those words coming from his owner or general manager, he might as well just packing up his office then. Let’s be honest. We are deep… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/22/2011 – The Inaugural Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
One of the running bits here as Dubsism has been to chronicle some of the lesser-known, albeit tremendous moments in the career of the greatest coach in the history of college football, Joe Paterno. In honor of his 408th career win (tying Paterno with Grambling legend Eddie Robinson), we thought this would be the perfect… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: “GET THAT SHIRT PULLED DOWN!”
Esteban over at Total Pro Sports put together a thought provoking list. A while ago, that site did a list of the fattest paychecks in sports, and it’s what you would expect, except for the Formula 1 racing guys and Manny Pacquiao. Granted, I didn’t think of those guys at first, but it makes sense… Read More Top Salaries From Obscure Sports and What That Really Means
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