When you are a kid, two things that get your juices going are music and sports. Face it, being good at either was the ticket to Chick-town, and since I was 14 with enough testosterone surging through my veins to kill a man in his 50’s, I got involved in both because I was taking… Read More The Deep Six: “Old School” Rhythm Sections and Their Sporting Equivalents
Have you ever seen one of those incidents like a car accident where there are body part laying in the streets and fuel tanks rocketing flame into the air and some cop is standing there waving people away with the phrase “move along, nothing to see here…” It sounds stupid then, and it sounded equally… Read More Adrian “Fumbl-icious” Peterson Says “Move Along…Nothing to See Here”
Trying to read what Brett Favre is going to do is nearly impossible, unless of course you are one of the approximately 300+ people who have picked off his passes. There’s a very good football blog called The Shutdown Corner which tried to do this with Brett Favre’s press conference announcing that he would return… Read More Where The Shutdown Corner And Dubsism Disagree
Because we are into the greatest 12 weekends of the year, it is also time to remind some people of just who they are. In other words, we are taking the pre-season Dubsism Top 25 and reminding them that they suck. Let’s be honest, a big part of college football is trash-talking. This is exactly… Read More Trash-Talking the Top 25
Gee, your hair smells like a million bucks. Celebrities have insured body parts before, but this is the first time that someone insured a part of the body that can grow back. Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu recently took precautionary measures to ensure that his luscious 3-foot locks are insured and fully protected. Head… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Hair Insurance
Have you ever had occasion where you say somebody about to make a decision so bad that it will cause chaos in so many respects you just cringe thinking about it? A buddy of yours drinks too much and drunk-dials his ex, or doesn’t see the problem with lending money to a new girlfriend, or… Read More Open Letter To Brigham Young University: You’re Making a Huge Mistake
Can soccer announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting? Don’t get me wrong; everybody is innocent of criminal charges until they are proven guilty. After all, I took loads of crap for defending Ben Roethlisberger against criminal charges, but there was no way I wouldn’t say the guy is a douchebag. After all, Big Ben… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Jay Mariotti A Bitch?
Here it is nearing the end of the 2010 season, and once again, all is amiss in Wrigleyville. Derrek Lee is gone, Carlos Zambrano is a headcase, Alfonso Soriano is a bust, and thanks to Carlos Silva’s heart issues, the Cubs most effective pitcher is arguably some guy named Tom Gorzelanny. Manager Lou Piniella couldn’t… Read More Open Letter to The Chicago Cubs: You Need Ed’s Deal
Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 10th; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: #1 vs. #2 – Alabama (SEC #1) vs. Ohio State (Big Ten #1) Payout: $18,000,000 Fiesta Bowl: Saturday, January 1st; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: Big 12 Champion/BCS vs. BCS At-Large – Texas (Big 12 #1)… Read More The Dubsism 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Predictions
Four words: Terry Tate, Office Linebacker. Let’s be honest, the person who is fucking up this country is the jerk-off who takes the last of the coffee without making more, the person who kills productivity by lingering over breaks, and the person who doesn’t put cover sheets on their TPS reports. NTWJCWV84FEF {“retval”:1,”msg”:””,”data”:{“blog_id”:”1533200″}}
How many times have we seen this movie? A young phenom pitcher bursts onto the scene, electrifies the league with his electric stuff, then a fuse blows. Enter Stephen Strasburg, whose sheer voltage somehow managed to make the Washington Nationals relevant if for even the briefest of moments. Don’t get me wrong; the probability that… Read More Stephen Strasburg Is Just The Latest In A Long Line
I think the reasons for this may have been mentioned before. Let’s play a game called “Baseball Frankenstein.” The object is to create the worst player possible by taking some of the worst individual skills of major leaguers. One might start with the foot speed of Bengie Molina. It would be hard to imagine worse fielding… Read More Why Is Anybody Surprised Johnny Damon Was Waived?
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska beginning in 2011, the Big Ten will have twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will… Read More Penn State ’10 – The Last Year for the Big Eleven
After announcing that his retirement originally scheduled for the end of this season was moving up to today, it is time to give Lou Piniella the send-off he richly deserves. 18 years as a player, 23 years as a manager, three World Series rings; his 1,835 wins as a manager rank him behind only Tony… Read More Goodbye, Sweet Lou…
If you are a fan of baseball, you have no choice but to be happy that Dodger broadcasting legend Vin Scully is not retiring at the end of the 2010 season. LOS ANGELES (AP)– Vin Scully said Sunday he’ll return to the broadcast booth to call Los Angeles Dodgers games next year for his 62nd… Read More Vin Scully Returning For a 62nd Season
Kids, learn a lesson here…you just can’t go around punching people in the face. If you are a public figure like a football player, people will dig up every little thing you’ve ever done. I’m not going to blame The Oregonian’s John Canzaro for doing his job; that’s what reporters do. Instead, you can take… Read More Here Comes The Rumor Mill…
The other day, a flap came about between former NFL head coach Tony Dungy and current New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan because Ryan “swears too much.” Today, ESPN’s Colin Cowherd asserted what he thinks the core of the issue is. Cowherd’s belief is that swearing when used “sparingly” has an impact; that volume… Read More Your Colin Cowherd Moment of the Day – Rex Ryan vs. Tony Dungy: A Study In Leadership Styles
If you remember LeGarrette Blount, you remember the punch; the moment that gave Blount his 15 minutes of fame and made him a 2009 Dubsy award winner. It seems Blount just goes with what he knows. The undrafted, free-agent rookie running back capped off a feisty night practice for the Tennessee Titans with yet another… Read More The Anger Management Classes Must Not Have Stuck
Some dates are forever burned into your memory. July 4th, 1776. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. In Minnesota, you can add August 18th, 2009 – the day King Brett I ascended to The Throne of the Court of the Purple. This is also the anniversary date of this very blog; it came to be as an outlet… Read More One Year Later, Brett Favre Is Still A Douche; Viking Fans Still Blind
I will be honest, I’ve waffled more than IHOP when it comes to the subject of a playoff in Division I College Football. To be even more honest, the anti-BCS argument always tends to push me the other way, because the anti-BCS argument is almost always so flawed that I can’t help but see it… Read More The BCS Isn’t Perfect, But It’s What We’ve Got…For Now
