Baseball and golf have more in common than hitting a small ball with a big stick, part II.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 112: The “The Werth of Never Breaking the Chain” Edition
Golf and baseball share more than just hitting a little ball with a big stick.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 111: The “Fowl Ball” Edition
Think the big media outlets are the only ones who can do those “click-bait” end of year “remember this” bits? No, except ours are better… Read More Dubsism’s 15 Most Important Sports Stories of 2016
Golf and baseball don’t look much alike, but these guys sure do. … Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 97: Majorly Stroking the MLB Trade Deadline
Sense and Sensibility…and a seven-iron from the sand.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 96: The Golfer Who Went Up a Major and Came Down an Englishman
Bubba Watson is going to destroy something he loves for no better reason than American stupidity.… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Bubba Watson and the “General Lee,” Part II
A whole bunch of look-alikes from all of June’s big sporting events. … Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 83: The “Champions of June” Edition
It’s become a tradition here at Dubsism to bring in the New Year by taking a look back the old one. 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… Read More The Sixth Annual Dubsy Awards
What do a fuel pump, a pork tenderloin sandwich, and Steve Stricker have in common? To know the answer, you going to have to listen to the story behind how Mrs. Dubsism and I discovered Wisconsin’s version of Mayberry, and how a character named Scotty the Auto-Repairman who gets support in the Dubsism house… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 7: How Steve Stricker Became My Wife’s Favorite Golfer
The latest “worst scandal ever” has gripped the golf world this morning; there’s far too much hand-wringing going on over this Tiger Woods “Drop Heard ‘Round The World.” This bounding load of bull is being propagated by dickfaces like Brandel Chamblee from The Golf Channel. In today’s installment of the Dubscast, J-Dub takes a critical look… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 6: Forget “The Drop” – What Tiger Woods’ Legacy Really Is
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
The good news for those of us here at Dubsism who intend to milk this Moyer thing for every goddamn drop: Jamie Moyer is extending his farewell tour. The bad news for baseball fans? It will come not on the mound, but in the fairways and sand traps of the greater Reno-Tahoe area. Last Friday,… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update: Moyer on the Senior PGA Tour?
Remember the other day when I called the Washington Nationals a bunch of “pimply-faced prodigies who by graduating from Harvard at age fifteen have already accomplished more than a middle-aged dipshit writing some blog which gets four readers a week ever will.” Let me introduce you to Beau Hossler, who as a 17-old brace-faced little… Read More Beau Knows Golf
Rural America is run by rednecks. One of the beautiful things about rednecks is that they live up to the definition ascribed to them by noted redneck Jeff Foxworthy: “Redneck” is a glorious absence of sophistication. One of the beautiful things about that such a lack of sophistication is they don’t tend to subscribe to such… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: NASCAR Bans the “General Lee”
No, this isn’t another tale of a Brett Favre-like textual assault. Rather, this is a story of a cylindrical meat attack in of all places, a golf course. A strange year for Tiger Woods took another bizarre twist Sunday when a fan was arrested for running toward the seventh green at CordeValle and tossing a… Read More The Tiger Woods “Hot Dog” Incident – Another Example of “Wiener Bias”
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