by J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Ideas are the very fabric of innovation. While that line sounds awfully deep for a silly-ass sports blog, it is nonetheless painfully true. Without ideas, as a race we humans would have nothing to do and would spend even more time masturbating. Take we writers of this piece for example.… Read More The Deep Six: Terrible Sports Ideas Which Thankfully Haven’t Happened Yet
This one almost sounds like the setup to a joke. “So, a future NBA MVP and an excessively weird 1930’s Mexican artist walk into a bar…” But there’s no joke about the fact that New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis and quirky artist Frida Kahlo share some distinct features. For our full series of Doppelgangers,… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 69
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Every year about this time, it is tradition here at Dubsism to write a piece trashing the Super Bowl contestants. The reason why we do this is actually rather simple. The Super Bowl is the biggest sports event in America, and as such, it draws in all the casual fans… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For…The Seattle Seahawks
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Every year about this time, it is tradition here at Dubsism to write a piece trashing the Super Bowl contestants. That means we’ve written this piece about the goddamn Patriots before. You would think we have run out of material. Thankfully, nothing could be further from the truth. The reason… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For…The New England Patriots
What is becoming a tradition here at Dubsism is to point out the look-alikes present on the rosters of both Super Bowl contestants. The problem we face this year is both of these teams have been in recent Super Bowls, which means we faced a bit of a challenge. We weren’t doing this feature the… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 67 – The Super Bowl 49 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
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between J-Dub and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in the Dubsism BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. When a situation threatens to become a train wreck, much like the Dallas… Read More Conversations Not Meant to Be Public: Jerry Jones Sells His Soul To The Devil
For the sixth January in a row, we here at Dubsism will be handing out our coveted awards for various achievements in the world of sport. But this year, we are doing something different. For the fist time ever, we are opening up the nomination process to the readers of our partner blog Turtle Boy… Read More It’s Time To Submit Your Nominees For The 2014 Dubsy Awards
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between J-Dub and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in the Dubsism BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. When a situation threatens to become a train wreck, much like the Florida… Read More Conversations Not Meant To Be Public: Jimbo Fisher Keeps Trying To Figure Out Jameis Winston
This is another installment in the Sports Blog Movement series which takes a hard look at certain instances, or specific seasons which would make sports fans cringe in horror and pain, or expands on that to take a hard look at the long-suffering fans of franchises who have tortured their supporters for decades. The episode… Read More Tales of Depression and Sorrow: The Los Angeles Angels
You would think a momentous occasion like this would have dramatic opening theme music like this. But let’s be honest, this is an independent sports blog with what could be most politely described as an “off-beat” sense of humor. That means appropriate theme music for this moment would be something more like this from the… Read More Five Years of Dubsism: The Epitome Of What Is Wrong With the Internet
Thanks to a suggestion from my usual partner-in-crime Ryan Meehan which sent me into a swirl of horrid 80’s music flashbacks, you can sit back and brace yourself for a cavalcade of Lionel Richie jokes. Don’t even try to tell us you don’t see the resemblance; you have to make the mustache a bit “douchier,”… Read More Sports Doppelgangers – Volume 65: Can Derrick Rose Go “All Night Long?”
I’m sure this will prove to be a test of the “Too Soon” rule, but as a guy who lived in Minneapolis when the 35W bridge went down, I couldn’t help but notice how Paul George’s leg suffered a similar epic collapse. Let’s be honest here. Now that I live in Indiana and while I… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 64: Paul George’s New Uniform Number Should Be 35W
On the last episode of the Blast-Cast with J-Dub and Meehan, J-Dub was posed a question about his loyalty in terms of being a fan of a certain team. That conversation quickly turned into an analogy between being a fan of multiple teams and the illusory nature of monogamous relationships. It may not be pretty,… Read More The Laws Concerning Having More Than One “Favorite” Team
As promised, the former Sports Blog Movement feature Sports Doppelgangers will live on here at Dubsism. Having said that, this doppelganger is a bit more abstract than usual, if for no other reason than you really have to picture some things in your mind to make this one work. First, head down to your local… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 63 – Keeping Alexei Ramirez Away From the U.S. Navy Might Be A Good Idea
Editor’s Note: Mr. Rockford is a private detective based in Malibu, California. We here at Dubsism have retained Mr. Rockford at his standard rate of two hundred dollars a day plus expenses to investigate matters of crime and other general shadiness in the world of sports, then report back to us when needed. If you would… Read More Guest Column: Jim Rockford on the Death of Sports Blog Movement and the New and Improved Dubsism
One thing that is true about the blogosphere, and one of its greatest things overall, is the fact that you can find a list for just about any topic. This is the parlance of Listverse, which is honestly one of the best sites anywhere. This is why we here at Dubsism have a long history… Read More Five Arguments For and Against the Existence of God and Their Equivalents Concerning Jamie Moyer as a Hall of Famer
Many people don’t realize it, but the NCAA College Hockey Tournament is timed exactly to give you, the bracket loving public, another shot to fill out a bracket, albeit a completely different one. What you know about college hockey matters little; most of you who fill out brackets for basketball don’t know shit about that… Read More …And Now For a Bracket Completely Different…College Hockey!
Last year, the analogy I made to the disaster that is my bracket was to a crashing airliner. Last year was the first in all my years of this basketball-driven self-flagellation where I lost my champion in the first weekend. This year marks the worst bracket I’ve ever had while still keep all of my… Read More Yet Another Year Where My Brackets Call For a Disaster Analogy
Raise your hand if you remember Robert “Tractor” Traylor. For those of you whose hands are at their sides, let me refresh you. Traylor was a McDonald’s high-school All-American the same year as Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter and Paul Pierce. At the University of Michigan, Traylor’s impressive size (6’8″, and north of 300 pounds) helped… Read More The Dubsism 2014 NCAA All-“Tractor” Traylor Memorial Team
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