Today, the world of sports journalism got a little bit better, because Jay Mariotti is no longer in it. I’m not going to hide behind any pretense; this is pure schadenfreude for me. For years, Mariotti has been that special kind of buttloaf who gives all sports writers a bad name. In fact to call… Read More Praise the Beginning of the “Mariotti-Free” Era
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Vikings are expected to close a deal with New England today to acquire Randy Moss. Forget that Minnesota ran Moss out of town in 2004. Forget that Randy Moss has never once passed the “Net Difference” test. And for now, forget that Randy Moss is in a contract year.… Read More Whenever You Need To See Desparation, Just Look Toward Minnesota
Here we are; another October full of post-season baseball. Let’s be honest, most of the crap I said about these teams six months ago was wrong, so why not go for month number seven proving I have no idea what I’m talking about. Take the following for example (from April 22nd): California in General: The Padres are leading… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Post-Season “Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For” Edition
A Michigan high school football team has made a rather unique decision to start holding practices during overnight. Did he do this to avoid the summer heat? Did he do this as some sort of punishment? No, it turns out he is yet another example of knuckling under to stupidity. Fordson High, located in Dearborn,… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Midnight Football Practice
Here’s another case of somebody who while embroiled in controversy had my support up until the point when they said something SO stupid that I had no choice but to re-evaluate my position. I never faulted LeBron James for leaving the Cavaliers. As I wrote then, it was not James’ fault the Cavaliers never held… Read More Open Letter to LeBron James: Stop Letting Your Dog Crap In My Yard
Honestly, this is a hard piece for me to write as I really can’t understand it. I can enumerate the reasons, I can even understand how each of them can happen, but for the life of me, I cannot understand how somebody can blow a fortune worth millions and never have that alcoholic-like “moment of… Read More The Main Reasons Why Professional Athletes Become Bankrupt
Since the NBA season is fast approaching, it is time to look back at some of my all-time favorite NBA draft mistakes. In retrospect, some of these decisions were so bad they defy logic. Sure, I get that hindsight is 20/20, but take an honest look at this list and just try to say they… Read More My Favorite NBA Draft Disasters
George “The Grand Old Man” Blanda passed away yesterday and the football world certainly feels a huge loss. From his days as the son of a Czech-born Pennsylvania coal miner to the University of Kentucky under legendary head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, to the NFL, the AFL, and the Hall of Fame, Blanda left a… Read More RIP, George Blanda
Over on Listverse, there has been another great-yet-odd list compiled. While the subject doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that I found it comparable to a somehow-sports-related screed, it is really hard to resist a list of people who were killed by radiation. Just think, the same power that heats up your lunch in… Read More Ten Famous Deaths By Radiation Poisoning and Their Equivalent Sports Firings
Sadly, this crap is coming back to light. Just this past weekend, College GameDay did a piece on the Smurf Turf at Boise State, and its new colored counterpart at Eastern Washington University. We here at Dubsism pointed this out a while back, but we just discovered a far more sinister aspect. Apparently, blue turf… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Colored Turf UPDATE
There are dates on which everybody remembers where they were because some infamous event occurred on that day. December 7th, 1941…January 28th, 1986…September 11th, 2001. Perhaps it is only for me, but I would add August 3rd, 2010 to that list of infamy. Like I said, you may not remember what happened that day, but… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Brett Favre
If you recall, in an effort to give you, the blog-reading public, an insight into the best sports league you’ve never heard of, we here at Dubsism penned a primer comparing the members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) to characters from The Simpsons. The trouble came when the WCHA was the first big… Read More The Results Are In! Your New Representative WCHA Simpsons Characters Are…
Now that the race in the American League Central is all but over, it is really time to eulogize the White Sox; by “eulogize” I mean point out why the White Sux are really one of the most irritating franchises in all of sports. Let’s face it. White Sox fans even by their very existence… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Chicago White Sox
I love Listverse. The one beef I would have is that it doesn’t have enough good sports lists. But what it does have is many lists that have equivalencies in the sports world. Today’s installment involves 10 forms of government and gives a representative example from the sports world. Think of it as a civics… Read More Ten Forms of Government and Their Representative Sports Organizations
It is officially time for people who write those “biggest draft bust” lists to begin writing the “Matt Leinart” entry. Now that he’s been relegated to the third-string in Houston, it’s a pretty safe bet the “potential” in his career is gone. He now becomes the 45-year old guy who once was the “smartest kid… Read More How Can You Be Out of Coconut Shrimp? Hey, Didn’t You Used to Be Matt Leinart?
September marks the time of year when football and baseball intersect. Its only natural that many players played both; the two-sport star existed before Bo Jackson, and to this day there are plenty who have laced it up on both fields. Many of the boys of summer you are watching now easily could have been… Read More The Ten Best Football Players in Baseball
1) The ACC sucks. When the class of this league all gets beat on one weekend, including a Georgia Tech loss to a sinking Kansas program, and Virginia Tech spitting the bit against James Madison, it is getting safe to say whoever this conference puts in the BCS will be sure to treat us to… Read More Nine Things We’ve Learned From The First Two Weeks of College Football 2010
Does a woodchuck chuck wood? Let’s just cut to the chase here…Calvin Johnson and the Lions got it “prison style.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming the officials; they enforced the letter of the rule, which is exactly what they need to do. But it is the spirit of the rule that is screwed… Read More Ask the Geico Guy: Did The Detroit Lions Get Screwed?
Football fans love a big, bruising runner; as a football fan, I’m no different. But I’m also a train geek, and I couldn’t help but notice that people love to use train-related terms when referring to the big bruisers. So, in my twisted mind, it makes perfect sense to compare the great big bruisers to… Read More The Ten Greatest “Power” Running Backs and Their Locomotive Equivalent
Once again we arrive at the annual eye-rape that is Michigan vs. Notre Dame. Remember the good old days when this game featured two good teams? Those days may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean this game still carries meaning. Last year, this game was just another chance for embattled Irish coach Charlie Weis… Read More The Annual Toilet Bowl
