When it comes to hockey, I grew up on the Los Angeles Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers of the 1970’s , which means I am a connoisseur of the knuckles-in-your-mouth style of play. There’s an art to sheer bad-assery; the trouble in hockey is that bad-assery is really limited to the realm of the skull-buster.… Read More Dubsism’s 15 All-Time Hockey Enforcers and Their Fictional Cop Counterparts
I can’t explain it, so take a read of the incident from the Western College Hockey blog: Farmington high school (Minn.) held a 2-1 lead over Chaska high school with just over three minutes remaining in the third period of their game on Thursday night when the truly bizarre happened. Farmington senior goalie Austin Krause… Read More How This Isn’t An Out-Take From “Slap Shot” Is Beyond Me
We here at Dubsism, in our ever-present search for the absurd, have come up with photographic proof that Vikings’ defensive end had a career in movies before he became the most over-rated player in professional football. Go back to the 1988 college football recruiting classic “Johnny Be Good.” Look for the character “Bad Breath.” The… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Jared Allen’s Early Film Career Discovered
This may just be the usual rookie hazing, but this represents something that has gone just a bit too far in this country. This is Anthony Bass of the San Diego Padres, a team that has a tradition of making the rookies wear “Star Wars” backpacks. Frankly, this is just a glimpse of a much larger… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Star Wars Geekery Must Be Stopped
Of all the bronze plaques hanging in Canton, until today the one belonging to the man who did the most for professional football in this country was conspicuously absent from the Hall of Fame. Oddly enough, the journey of the the man who put football in all our living rooms didn’t start on a football… Read More The Pro Football Hall of Fame Finally Inducts Its Most Important Member
Editor’s Note: Thanks to the Movie The King’s Speech, George VI came back into the view of the American populace. If it weren’t for that movie, most Yanks had long since forgotten George VI’s role as a wartime leader and the fact he ruled sovereign over a quarter of the world. Much as he did through the… Read More Guest Column: King George VI on the NFL Lockout
We started with 64, and after four weeks, six rounds, and tons of votes, we are down to one. According to you, the readers of Dubsism, the greatest sports movie in history is:
After all the upsets, the highs, the lows, the whatevers, we have a championship match. The only two #1 seeds to make the Final Four face off for the title of greatest sports movie ever according to the readers of Dubsism, which, lets be honest, is the only audience that matters. Vote away gang; voting… Read More The Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular – The Finals
Here we are…down the the Final Four. There have been upsets, there have been Cinderellas, but let’s be honest. Any movie that has survived this far must be both pretty good and has a fair amount of fans. Now, it is time to see which will be the last one standing. The voting will close… Read More The Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular – The Final Four
Regional Finals abound in our sports movie tournament. It is begging the question “does life imitate art or does art imitate life.” Just like real basketball tournaments (perhaps not this year’s) some top seeds perform, and there’s always a Cinderella looking to crash the ball. Voting in this round will close Friday at midnight. West… Read More The Dubsism March Movie Spectacular – The Elite Eight
While all the #1 and #2 seeds are still standing, this tournament has not been friendly to favorites. There’s only one each left of the #3 and #4 seeds. There are three #5 seeds still standing. There’s a Sweet Sixteen match between a #5 and a #10. There’s even a #13 out there wearing a… Read More The Dubsism March Movie Spectacular – The Sweet Sixteen
The First Round of the Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular offered some interesting battles, and the Second Round promises more of the same. Before we get into how the brackets look in the next round, let’s take a quick peek at what the opening round taught us. It’s Good To Be King – Much like… Read More The Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular – The Second Round Starts Now!
The selection process is complete. First off, the four #1 seeds are: West Region: Hoosiers (1986) Midwest Region: Slap Shot (1977) South Region: Raging Bull (1980) East Region: Bull Durham (1988) The full bracket looks like this (click to enlarge): West Region: Midwest Region: South Region: East Region: First-round winners will be announced next Sunday,… Read More The Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular: The Bracket Is Out – Vote For Your First-Round Winners
In America, March means Brackets. In the Blogosphere, it is now a requirement to bracketize something which had not yet previously been reduced a field of 64. Since ostensibly, this is a blog about sports, we thought “Why not a Sports Movie Bracket?” Honestly, we are still in the process of selecting a field of… Read More The Dubsism March Sports Movie Spectacular
Editor’s Note: Thanks to the Movie The King’s Speech, George VI came back into the view of the American populace. If it weren’t for that movie, most Yanks had long since forgotten George VI’s role as a wartime leader and the fact he ruled sovereign over a quarter of the world. Much as he did… Read More Guest Column: King George VI – Avoid an NFL Lockout or Perish
Editor’s Note: Thanks to the Movie The King’s Speech, George VI came back into the view of the American populace. If it weren’t for that movie, most Yanks had long since forgotten George VI’s role as a wartime leader and the fact he ruled sovereign over a quarter of the world. Much as he did… Read More Guest Column: King George VI on the NFL Lockout
If there is one thing that is true about Dubsism, it is that we have a fascination with all things Nutt. Now, thanks to the good people at Friends of the Program we have yet another example of how the call of the thespian runs in the Nutt bloodline. When you are trying to put… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Houston Nutt III – College Art Film Hunk
Charley Pegler – Brewster’s Millions Charley Pegler would the perfect manager for the Cubs, as he knows how to deal apparently self-destructive people. If you don’t remember the plot, Richard Pryor plays a minor-league pitcher who inexplicably inherits a shitload of money on the proviso he wastes $30 million in 30 days. Naturally, everybody thinks… Read More The Best Movie Baseball Managers
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
Mention the movie “A Star Is Born,” and the TCM-o-phile in me comes right out. I’m not the only one; it seems that every generation feels the need to remake this classic. Legendary Hollywood mogul David O. Selznick first made this movie in 1937. Another, and undeniably the best version starred Judy Garland and James… Read More Steve Sarkisian – A Star Is Born
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