While this story occurred in 1969, we here at Dubsism happen to enjoy the 2008 telling of the tale; largely because that’s the best Youtube video we can find. Anyway, the background is as follows…in 1969, Penn State is on its ascendance to national prominance; the Nittany Lions are one of three undefeated teams in… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Tells President Nixon to “Shove It”
Buzz Bissinger over at the Daily Beast weighed in on this burgeoning story on Thursday, and at first, I thought the man’s cheese has slipped off its cracker. But as I let myself digest this piece over a few days; as I let myself look at this situation in a larger perspective, I came to… Read More The University of Miami: A Dissection Of A Complete Over-Reaction That Is Largely Correct
It’s 2010, immediately after Penn State got their collective Nittany ass handed to them by Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Paterno makes a statement about how “we didn’t coach good enough,” at which point some idiot reporter asks a question which is merely a repeating of what Paterno just said. Naturally, the coach loses it just like… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: Alabama Reporters Piss Him Off
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. There is a rule in the blogosphere that says if you tag more than three posts with “college football,” you are required to do a pre-season ranking. Failure to do so will get your nose flayed and your genitals set on fire. With that…teams are… Read More The 2011 Dubsism Pre-Season College Football Rankings
As part of the run-up to the greatest twelve Saturdays of the year, Dubsism will be bringing you a series dedicated to memorable moments in the history of the greatest coach in college football. With that, we give you the first installment… It’s 1995 in the Meadowlands. Rutgers head coach Doug Graber and his coaching… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Curses On Live Television
This is one of those questions that has been asked so many times, yet so many people keep getting the answer wrong. It happened with USC. It happened with Ohio State. Now it’s happening with Miami, and it has happened dozens of time before that. With each breaking scandal, the call that it is time to play… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is It Time To Pay College Athletes?
This blog really has its genesis in my response to a post over at TheSportsKraze (he’s done a great job with that blog, and you should read it…after you are done reading Dubsism, of course). His premise is that Texas A&M was “rejected” by the SEC, and as much as I like his work, I couldn’t… Read More Is Texas A&M Getting Ready To Leave It’s Wife For The “Hot Chick?”
scha·den·freu·de – [shahd-n-froi-duh] – noun: satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune. It really shouldn’t surprise anybody that when you see a lot of a particular team’s gear out there, occasionally a picture will surface featuring some less-than-palatable creature sporting said gear. Welcome to the world Ohio State find itself in. This isn’t a new development. It first came to my attention a… Read More Today’s “Schadenfreude” Moment: Casey Anthony and Ohio State
Here’s time #8,756 I’ve said this – the NCAA is a joke. It didn’t exactly take the Amazing Kreskin to see this coming when star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and three other offensive starters were cited by the NCAA last December for selling rings, jerseys and other memorabilia as underclassmen. But 6 months later, Ohio State… Read More Where Was Self-Punishment When I Was a Kid?
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 Stupidity
Without a lot of undue fluff, a writer named named Andrew Henke has an interesting take on the NCAA. This guy really has the economic tilt of the NCAA nailed. If you pay attention to collegiate sports these days, one glaringly obvious shift has begun to occur: The NCAA has become the Wall Street of… Read More A Great Study on the True Level of Corruption in the NCAA
First there was Pete Carroll and USC. Then, there was Cheatypants McSweatervest and Ohio State. Lord knows what will come out of the whole Auburn/Cam Newton fiasco. Now, the web of trechery and deceit has ensnared the dean of college football, Joe Paterno. You read that right, the esteemed elder statesman, who’s literally been coaching since… Read More According to the NCAA, Everybody’s Dirty – Even Arch-Criminal Joe Paterno
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?
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
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
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
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