Two of the most interesting stories in the English Premier League just happen to look like each other. … Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 88: Another Excursion Into European Soccer
Find out why AFC Bournemouth, Baseball, and Buffalo play into “Story Time” with Uncle J-Dub.… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 17 – “Story Time”
Well, America…as long as your Saturday mornings are going to be filled with the English Premier League, you might as well know something about it. … Read More The Dubsism Premier League Primer for 2015
Major sports figures can not only get big heads, they can get weirdly-shaped ones as well.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 86: The “World Football/Waterhead Baby” Edition
A potential defendant who looks just like a fictional prosecutor…… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 82: The “Law and Order” Comes To FIFA Edition
Six reasons why the most-decorated club in English football is looking at yet another year without a trophy.… Read More The Deep Six: Why Liverpool Crashed Out of Europe
Forget about this not being your father’s NFL anymore. This is barely MY NFL anymore. Seriously, I’ve been saying this on Twitter for weeks. On an unrelated note, you should really follow @Dubsism because it is the best way to tell when I’ve had too much to drink while watching sports. But I digress. I’ve… Read More As Much as Football Has Changed, At Least It’s Still Not Soccer…Yet
15) The College Football Play-off and the ESPN-ization of Bowl Games There are two words to describe how we got this four-team playoff to determine the college football national champion. Television Money Don’t even try to deny that. Sure, you can point out that we really aren’t adding any games with this play-off, which is… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2014
The English Premier League doesn’t have a playoff system to determine its champion. The team that accrues the most points during the regular season wins that crown. Having said that, Saturday’s visit to Anfield by Manchester City to take on current league leader Liverpool could be the next best thing to a playoff. This year’s… Read More 007 Reasons Why Liverpool Will Win It’s First Premiership Crown in 2014
In honor of the first leg of the Champions League group stage, why not take a guy who left a team that didn’t qualify (Liverpool) for a team that was banned for match fixing (Fenerbahçe). Since Liverpool is now at the top of the English Premier League table, and Fenerbahçe won’t see the light of day… Read More SBM Exclusive Feature: Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 42
Now that we have an opening draw, there are now 96 matches scheduled between 32 of the best clubs Europe has to offer. Several great rivalries will be renewed over the next few months, and a handful of Europe’s up-and-coming sides will also be tested by the continent’s perennial powers. As usual, most Americans couldn’t… Read More Your 2013-2014 Dubsism UEFA Champions League Preview
Now that we are into the off-season for the “real” soccer leagues, it is time to give the American Major League Soccer some tips so it can actually become a “major” league. One of my favorite sports blogs recently did a piece on why soccer sucks and will never catch on in America. It its current… Read More SBM Exclusive Feature: What We Know Now – Ten Things Soccer Needs To Do To Gain Popularity in America
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. This was the first year we allowed nominations from the… Read More The 2012 Dubsy Awards
ESPN soccer commentator Alexi Lalas at auction purchased Geraldo Rivera’s mustache and had it dyed ginger. This is important to note because only a guy working in a growing sport could pay those kind of prices. If you doubt that, take a look at some of Lalas’ looks from when soccer was the red-headed step-child… Read More The Ever-Changing Looks of Alexi Lalas Are More Proof Soccer Is Gaining In Popularity In The United States…
Last week, the NBC Sports Network announced that through an $83 million bid, they have secured the broadcast rights in the United States for the English Premier League (EPL) for three years beginning with the 2013-2014 season. However, this move means more than soccer fans finding the “beautiful game” on another channel. This move has… Read More NBC Sports Network Is Your New Home For The English Premier League; This Is Very Bad News For ESPN
Today, we are going to learn how much pure sadism and hilarity can come from one sixteen-second video. First of all, where does one find a school that would line up 9 boys heads down and their pre-pubescent taints exposed for prime soccer-ball damage? Not one of them seems to know what is coming; otherwise… Read More Signs We Are Near The Civilization: Dodgeball Takes a Sadistic Twist
12) Minutes Played Let’s be honest. In basketball, it isn’t about how often you get on the floor, it’s what you do when you get there. That’s probably why all the leaders all-time in minutes played are (or will be) in the Hall-of Fame. This statistic gets even more worthless when you add the divisor… Read More The Twelve Most Useless Statistics in Sports
The sporting world is full of rivalries which engender so much passion there are clear battle lines drawn between the camps. But what happens to those of us who may feel animus toward both sides? Here’s a list of several such examples that make the collective colon here at Dubsism slam shut like a steel… Read More Famous Sports Rivalries In Which I Hate Both Sides
Let’s just cut to the chase here…everybody else does some sort of “Year End” list, here’s our obligatory ramble on what we consider to be the 15 most significant sporting occurrances in 2010. Honorable mention: The Vuvuzela What began as a seemingly harmless noisemaker instead became a symbol of what happens when you hold a… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Events of 2010
Since we are a month past the end of the World Cup, Americans and their notoriously short attention spans have likely forgotten the insanity that was the vuvuzela. Since I want to test that short American span, I want you to remember who was stopping the insanity close to twenty years ago. If you are… Read More Finally, Somebody Has Stopped The Insanity
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