Do you live under a rock? Let’s cut through the guano here. If back in December you didn’t at least suspect that at least one of the “Ohio State Five” would never put on a Buckeye uniform again, you are naive. If after Coach Cheatypants McSweatervest bought the farm last week, you still thought all… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Terrelle Pryor Leaving Ohio State a Surprise?
Honestly, I don’t know why anybody is surprised that Denver Post columnist and ESPN blowhard Woody Paige was accused of plagiarism. Did anybody think this hack was really coming up with half of the stuff he says on his own? Half the time is see him on “Around the Horn” I keep waiting to see… Read More When Bad Things Happen to Dumb People
Every year in mid-October, we get our first BCS (Bowl Championship Series) poll, which allows us collectively as college football fans to begin bitching about it. Every year, right around Thanksgiving time, the bitching hits full-roar because despite the conference championship games which yet to be played, there is always some team who somebody believes… Read More If You Needed More Proof We Need To Rethink a College Football Playoff, Jason Whitlock Said Something I Agree With…Yeah, That Jason Whitlock
Watching the fall of Jim Tressel at Ohio State has been like watching the fall of Nazi Germany. To anybody with a brain, the Nazis were all about evil, but there were still people willing to be apologists for them. While what Tressel was doing hardly qualifies on the same level of evil, but being… Read More But Did Jim Tressel Make The Trains Run On Time?
We here at Dubsism have been on this story for a while…and it keeps getting worse. First, there was Boise State. Boise State started this run by achieving notoriety with its “Smurf Turf” in the 90’s. It just so happens that was done at a time when this out-of-the way school was starting to garner… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Colored Turf UPDATE #2
Let’s just cut through the crap and get right down to the issue at hand. Any NBA team which hires Kevin McHale as its head coach only did so because Dr. Jack Kevorkian wouldn’t return their calls. Short of “Dr. Death,” nobody could possibly ensure basketball mortality more than Kevin “McFail.” Yeah, I know I’m… Read More An Open Letter to Houston Rockets Fans: Thanks For Making Me Look Like An Idiot, But At Least You’ve Committed Suicide
1) The Canucks are the team of “‘Gleeks.” For those of you lucky enough to not know what a “Gleek” is…”Gleek” = fans of that caterwauling Fox show “Glee;” the show takes music, lets a bunch of Off-Broadway hacks rape the shit out of it, then wipe their collective dick on your eardrums. If music… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Vancouver Canucks
Frankly, I couldn’t believe this when I first read it. “Nahhh, somebody hacked this page, or I’ve been somehow re-directed to the Onion” I thought to myself. But, no, the page was still Yahoo! News. I literally could feel my blood pressure pulling into the left lane and putting the pedal to the metal toward… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Genderless Babies
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of our File Dump…in short, 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 those good shots go to waste. Since today… Read More File Dump: The Jim Tressel Edition
We as a nation should all get behind the Dallas Mavericks for one reason. If the Heat win the Championship in the first season after the “Decision,” we will be subject to a full summer of the “LeBron” show, from which the resultant pandemic nausea may kill numbers of Americans unseen since the Spanish Flu… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Miami Heat
Sure, this is a small-time blog written by a group of convicted felons and read by worse. Sure, we do that stupid shit about writing predictions, since that seems to be a rule…once you put electronic pen to electronic paper, you have to become a prognosticator. Failure to do so means the Blog Police come… Read More The Memorial Day Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings – How Wrong We Were
When one talks of “flagship franchise,” it is hard to discuss the National Basketball Association without mentioning the Los Angeles Lakers in that capacity. The Lakers were the first dynasty in the history of the league, stemming all the way back to their original home from which the team name came; the City of Lakes,… Read More Open Letter to Los Angeles Laker Fans – Don’t Lose Sight of the 20 Guys You Should Really Hate
If in the 15th century, Dante could envision concentric, progressive levels of hell, he would have a field day with today’s blogosphere. I’m not sure which level Dubsism lands on for going from simple blogger to guest commentator on a podcast put together by respectable people, but the move has been made. Topics range from… Read More Dubsism Enters The PodCast World
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention that Mr. McGrath’s views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Frank McCourt and The Los Angeles Dodgers
I’m just going to come out and say it…Tony Dungy irritates the shit out of me. Dungy is a guy who, except for one accidentally successful moment, really should be relegated to the backwater of NFL history. But because we live in a society that believes anybody who won a Super Bowl automatically has opinions… Read More People Who Grind My Gears: Tony Dungy
Do you remember this guy? His name is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, but you likely know him as “Baghdad Bob.” We all came to know him during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Saddam Hussein. Realistically, he was a comical figure as a mouthpiece for Saddam’s regime; his… Read More Frank McCourt Needs a Minister of Information
Things to Remember: References to the “Kiper Theory” are ironically based on our Dubsism Anti-Kiper NFL Draft Board. We refused to change our board based on hype, workouts, or Todd McShay. As the only draft prognosticator who actually watches college football earlier than December, we based our rankings on something simple: the guy we thought… Read More The Dubsism Comprehensive NFL Draft Review – What We Told Them vs. What They Did
If you had to take either Ryan Mallett or Cam Newton, which would you take? If I’m a GM, I’m not touching Cam Newton with a 10-foot pole with a 60-foot pole attached to it. I don’t want anything to do with Newton, period. Newton’s left a paper trail wherever he’s been; there’s solid, documented… Read More Cam Newton or Ryan Mallett?
Let’s face it, college programs cheat. There’s an old saying in college sports, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Recently, we here at Dubsism hung a tag of “dirty program” on Auburn, but to be fair, they are far from the only one. Hell, they probably are all dirty; just because your school may… Read More The 10 Dirtiest College Programs Plus The Ones Of Which I’m Most Suspicious
Anybody who has read this blog know how I feel about the Los Angeles Dodgers; if not you may want to check my original treatise on the subject before reading any further here; you may find having the additional perspective helpful. What has happened to this franchise really should be a crime. If there were… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears – The Real Tragedy of the Los Angeles Dodgers
