As we are at the end of the 2012-13 NBA regular season, it is time to look at the teams who can actually win in the coming play-offs. Sure, the casual fan is going to be planted firmly on the Miami Heat bandwagon, but let’s be honest…they aren’t the only team who can win. But… Read More The Dubsism NBA Playoffs Contenders and Pretenders Edition: The Western Conference
As we are at the end of the 2012-13 NBA regular season, it is time to look at the teams who can actually win in the coming play-offs. Sure, the casual fan is going to be planted firmly on the Miami Heat bandwagon, but let’s be honest…they aren’t the only team who can win. But… Read More The Dubsism NBA Playoffs Contenders and Pretenders Edition: The Eastern Conference
Back in 2005, the NCAA declared that Native American mascots were “hostile and abusive” and outlawed them. Eight years later, the fact they are still around may be the perfect example of why the NCAA is the standard by which one measures ineffective and hypocritical organizations. The fact the debate spread beyond that is even… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 5: “Offensive” Mascots Prove The Hypocrisy of the NCAA
The Hindenburg. Challenger. My 2013 NCAA Bracket. All of them were disasters which made you understand how fleeting life can be. While my bracket will never have the ever-lasting imagery of the Hindenburg or Challenger, it was a tragedy of unparalled proportions in my own bracket-filling history. Never in my twenty-plus years of bracket mayhem… Read More The 2013 NCAA Tournament: Finding the Perfect Analogy For My Bracket
Now that my brackets are so much smoldering wreckage, it is time for a big dose of what the original purpose of this blog was: a profanity-filled tirade about shit I don’t like. This promises to be a particularly nasty edition since for the first time in the history of my filling out brackets, I’ve… Read More Trash-Talking The 2013 Sweet Sixteen
If you haven’t filled out a bracket yet, you are running out of time. Games start at noon eastern time tomorrow, which gives you just under 24 hours to fill out your bracket, and spend time tweaking it. Up until then, you can still join the Dubsism Bracket Challenge. But when it comes to your… Read More Two Things You Need To Know While Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket
Without further ado, here is the official 2013 Dubsism NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket: MIDWEST REGION: Midwest Region Champion: Michigan State WEST REGION: West Region Champion: Gonzaga SOUTH REGION: South Region Champion: Georgetown EAST REGION: East Region Champion: Miami (FL) THE FINAL FOUR: Gonzaga over Michigan State; Georgetown over Miami (FL) NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: … Read More The Definitive Dubsism NCAA Tournament Bracket – See If You Can Beat It
If you are my age, you remember “Emergency!” – the Jack Webb-produced homage to firefighter and paramedics. This was my favorite show when I was seven years old, and it made me want to be a firefighter, until I realized they are basically mailmen who get to drive a way cooler truck and have to… Read More College Basketball EMERGENCY! Dr. Brackett Is Here To Doctor Your Bracket
OK, so I get that the Berlin Wall came down close to 25 years ago. But it still has far-reaching impacts. Stolichnaya vodka isn’t hard to get anymore. Guys can beat off to pictures of Maria Sharapova without feeling like a traitor. And college basketball is full of guys with names that can’t be pronounced… Read More Thanks To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, College Basketball Is Full Of Names I Can’t Pronounce
Today’s installment of the Dubscast revolves around how fans of the Los Angeles Lakers need to get off the idea that bringing back Phil Jackson can revive the glory days. The Lakers have three main problems, and J-Dub explores those, and why “The Zen Master” can’t fix any of them.
Dr. Jerry Buss, the long-time owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, died this morning at the age of 79. Many people know Buss from his days as the owner of one of the premier sports franchise ion the planet, but those same people never realized what a fascinating guy Buss was. Gerald Hatten “Jerry” Buss… Read More RIP, Dr. Jerry Buss
If the mere thought of the “Dubs-eteria” doesn’t inspire gastronomic terror, then the following menu items certainly should. The only defense we can offer is that these dishes still aren’t as lousy as anything you can get at Olive Garden. Appetizers: The Baseball Writer’s Association of America “Poo-Poo” Platter It doesn’t even come with a… Read More If Dubsism Were a Bad Restaurant…Get Ready For Sports Stories as Menu Items
If you want to get a long and pointless discussion started, just bring up the subject of internet bullying. One of the things that makes that argument pointless is that it ignores real bullying, and to ignore real bullying is to ignore the occasionally hilarious stories it produces, like this one from the Ventura County… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Pissing Somebody Off Has A Whole New Meaning
In the history of sports, many franchises have changed cities; so many in fact that you may not know some of the more famous ones. In 1903, the original American League Baltimore Orioles headed for New York, where they were called the New York Highlanders until 1913, when they changed their name to the Yankees.… Read More Is The Most-Relocated Franchise In Sports Moving Again?
Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the nominations for the awards were done exclusively by an internal committee. This was the first year we allowed nominations from the… Read More The 2012 Dubsy Awards
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Los Angeles Kings Win The Stanley Cup For purposes… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2012
Let’s face it. For the regular six readers of this blog, I’m guessing a lot of you picture me as a Homer Simpson-ish character. Well, I don’t work at a nuclear power plant, Mrs. Dubsism does not have eight-foot tall blue hair, and you’d have to replace Homer’s love of Duff beer with some cheap-shit… Read More What You Would Expect From A Dubsism Christmas Post
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
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
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