Leave it to Chicago to find a way to fuck up anything it touches, like a sports day that should have been a tremendous one in the Windy City. After all, it isn’t every day you get to have a victory parade. But when the time came for Chicagoans to stop celebrating the Blackhawks’ capture… Read More Wrigley Field: A Perfect Site For a Disasters
It is an official position of Dubsism that Bobby Bowden is an Anti-Christ; he represented all that was wrong with college football, and many things that are just wrong in the universe in general. This means we here at Dubsism had lots of material in our files on Bowden; a lot of material that became… Read More File Dump: The Bobby Bowden Edition
In a sound-bite world, Colorado coach Dan Hawkins has offered some real belly-busters. At the beginning of last season, after a 2008 campaign that saw his Colorado Buffaloes hang a 5-7 mark, Hawkins told players and fans that he envisioned “10 wins and no excuses” this season. Well, he almost got the Buffs there…if you… Read More Dan Hawkins Just Became a Better Coach
Since it seems the college football world is about to undergo the tectonic shift of conference re-alignment we’ve all been waiting for, it may be time for us here at Dubsism to introduce you to a conference and its members with whom you may not be all that familiar. When it comes to the Pac-10,… Read More Understanding the Conference That Was The Pacific 10 Through a Comparison to “Scrubs” Characters
Since it seems the college football world is about to undergo the tectonic shift of conference re-alignment we’ve all been waiting for, it may be time for us here at Dubsism to introduce you to a conference and its members with whom you may not be all that familiar. When it comes to the Big… Read More Understanding the Conference That Was The Big 12 Through a Comparison to Stuff in My Kitchen
Since it seems the college football world is about to undergo the tectonic shift of conference re-alignment we’ve all been waiting for, it may be time for us here at Dubsism to introduce you to a conference and its members with whom you may not be all that familiar. When it comes to the Big… Read More Understanding The Conference That Was The Big Ten Through a Comparison to Classic Game Show Hosts
Did you ever notice old guys like big stuff? For some reason, they love to drive something like a Buick as long as it has a hood big enough to double as a replacement flight deck for an aircraft carrier, and we all know the biggest buffet in town will collect codgers like Paris Hilton… Read More Joe Paterno Favors Big Ten Consuming The Known Universe
Know who loves the Broncos taking Tim Tebow in the first round? Dicky V. Know who hates the pick? Colin Cowherd. Honestly, I didn’t want to notice this, but after having read Vitale’s pre-draft column extolling the virtues of taking Tejus and listening to Cowherd’s fervent belief Denver may as well have drafted the Flying Nun,… Read More Guess Who Has a Man-Crush on Tim Tebow?
With all the talk out there regarding the BCS vs. a playoff system, one of the things nobody takes into account is the conference system. It’s the conferences that keep the bowl system alive, which means any serious change will mean a change to the current conference configurations. Naturally, I have solved this problem, in… Read More Re-Conferencing College Football – The Dubsism Approach
10) Michael Jordan Was the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century You can thank ESPN for this exercise in the power of the present. Back at the turn of the century, the World Wide Leader published its list of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and placed Jordan at the top of that list. One… Read More The Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports
Spring games…just another reminder that we are mired in the doldrums of the college football off-season. Sure, it has been another off-season with its usual carousel of coaches, but none with the drama of what happened in the Southeastern Conference in 2007; the year that my favorite completely insane sideline leader finally fell victim. That December marked the time Houston… Read More Oxford-alypse Now
Leave it to CNN to screw up and cause a controversy. It seems as though the world’s first all-news cable network pulled a gaffe of plus-size proportions when CNN’s Headline News, while covering a story about people getting all pissed about somebody making a spoof of a Lane Bryant ad, mistakenly ran the spoof during their coverage of… Read More Does This Mean CC Sabathia Will Get a Speeding Ticket on the Way to McDonalds?
The approach of spring football also brings one of the true joys of college football: the Joe Paterno press conference. Understanding a Paterno presser, particularly the first one of the spring, means a full-fledged exercise in teasing the real story out of his “answers,” which are usually one part Yogi Berra, one part sarcasm, and two parts old-school… Read More Let The Jedi Mind Tricks Begin
Of all people, I am the one who understands making the big road trip for a college football game. I’ve made a sixteen-hour one way drive just for a Penn State game in Happy Valley more times than I care to admit. If you think that is a bit much, ask yourself a question. What… Read More We’ve Just Found The World’s Craziest Man
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. First of all, I want to say that stuff Reggie Dunlop was spreading about me wearing dresses is a bunch of bunk. He’s… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on the International Bowl
Boise State started this run by acheiving 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 some notice in the college football world. Next thing you know, there’s some odd damn thing on ESPN9 called the “Humanitarian… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Colored Turf
Now that 2009 is in the books, it is time to recognize some truly great achievements in the world of sport that may otherwise go unnoticed. With that, I give you the 2009 Dubsy Awards. The Mickey Klutts Award for Unfortunate Naming It is bad enough to be accused of being a male hiding in… Read More The 2009 Dubsy Awards
Two years ago, Southern Cal and Ohio State were universally regarded as being two of the elite programs in all of college football; both were on a roll of consecutive shared or outright conference titles. Two months ago, they met in a Clash of the Titans in Columbus, with one seeming like a lock to… Read More Terrelle, the Trojans, and the Battle of Thermopylae?
Let’s be honest…it is only the presence of Ohio State that keeps Michigan from being the biggest collection of perennially over-rated douchebags in the Big Eleven Ten. Llllloyd Carr got fired at Mi-shit-gan because of his five “Ls” against the Suckeyes. John Cooper got fired from Ohio State a few years back for the same… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Michigan Wolverines
The word “temple” can evoke many different visions. Health fanatics love the cliché “the body is a temple.” For the people in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood I which I live, it has another meaning entirely. One thing that Temple hasn’t brought to mind in 20 years is winning football. Mind you, that wasn’t always the… Read More Is There a New “Golden” Era in North Philadelphia?
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