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
We here at Dubsism are excited to bring you a new feature, an audio podcast to go along with the series of video podcast we produce. In the inaugural episode, J-Dub talks about how NFL free agency is like having a girlfriend who is jet-screaming hot, but is also bat-shit crazy. He also puts to… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 1 – NFL Free Agency and the Phil Jackson Saga
By J-Dub and Meehan The NFL once was the ultimate gridiron struggle, but in recent years it’s become more of a contest to see who can get the zebras to give them the biggest advantage. We’ve all seen the offense line-up on 4th-and-short with no intention of snapping the football; rather it’s all about which yardbarker can draw… Read More The NFL Has Become the Bullshit Penalty League – How Long Before They Get Sued Over Bad Calls?
1) What Vegas Thinks As a retired bookie, J-Dub has always known that professional gamblers pay attention to five key statistics: Yards Rushing per Game: Regular Season – Seattle 136.8, Denver 117.1; Post-Season – Seattle, 144.5, Denver 120.0 Yards Rushing Allowed Per Game: Regular Season – Seattle 101.6, Denver 101.6; Post-Season – Denver 64.5, Seattle… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Super Bowl XLVIII Preview
By J-Dub and Meehan As part of Sports Blog Movement’s Super Bowl coverage, we are taking a page from J-Dubs own blog Dubsism. There, he made it a point to depart from the usual Super Bowl bluster; we aren’t here to tell you a bunch of shit about who’s going to win, why there going to win, and we… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Seattle Seahawks
By J-Dub and Meehan As part of Sports Blog Movement’s Super Bowl coverage, we are taking a page from J-Dubs own blog Dubsism. There, he made it a point to depart from the usual Super Bowl bluster; we aren’t here to tell you a bunch of shit about who’s going to win, why there going to win, and we… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Denver Broncos
After the New York Jets beat the Miami Dolphins 20-7 to end their season, owner Woody Johnson announced that Rex Ryan would be the Jets’ head coach next year. Then, he backed that up by inking Ryan to a multi-year extension. Finally, the Jets’ make a smart move. Yes, I understand that Ryan can be… Read More Why Rex Ryan Should Be AFC Coach of the Year
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, but we’ve had so much success allowing nominations from the… Read More The Fifth Annual Dubsy Awards
If you aren’t familiar with the 1954 film classic “A Star Is Born” starring Judy Garland and James Mason, then the jokes here are going to be completely lost on you. But rather than telling you to move along, you may want to consider giving the following movie parody a read, because it was written… Read More In Honor of Steve Sarkisian’s Hiring at USC, It’s Time To Raid The Dubsism Archives
On Wednesday, San Francisco Bay saw what may be the greatest comeback in the history of sports in a contest for what is the oldest trophy in the history of competitive sports. No, we aren’t talking about Game 7 in a Stanley Cup Final or a World Series. Wednesday, the American’s mounted a most improbable… Read More Why Don’t Americans Care About The America’s Cup?
Let’s just cut to the chase here…this country is fucked. The signs of it are around us every day. The one that really got me going was listening the the President of the United States say in reference to the Trayvon Martin case “that could have been me.” There’s approximately 1,567,836 reasons for that being… Read More Eight Cultural Differences Between the 1950s and Now and Their Sporting Equivalents
