The Hindenburg. Challenger. My 2013 NCAA Bracket. All of them were disasters which made you understand how fleeting life can be. While my bracket will never have the ever-lasting imagery of the Hindenburg or Challenger, it was a tragedy of unparalled proportions in my own bracket-filling history. Never in my twenty-plus years of bracket mayhem… Read More The 2013 NCAA Tournament: Finding the Perfect Analogy For My Bracket
Now that my brackets are so much smoldering wreckage, it is time for a big dose of what the original purpose of this blog was: a profanity-filled tirade about shit I don’t like. This promises to be a particularly nasty edition since for the first time in the history of my filling out brackets, I’ve… Read More Trash-Talking The 2013 Sweet Sixteen
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In the third episode of the Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism take a break from the March Madness to break down the winners and losers in the madness known as NFL Free Agency. J-Dub and Meehan both have five teams who they believe…
If you haven’t filled out a bracket yet, you are running out of time. Games start at noon eastern time tomorrow, which gives you just under 24 hours to fill out your bracket, and spend time tweaking it. Up until then, you can still join the Dubsism Bracket Challenge. But when it comes to your… Read More Two Things You Need To Know While Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket
Without further ado, here is the official 2013 Dubsism NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket: MIDWEST REGION: Midwest Region Champion: Michigan State WEST REGION: West Region Champion: Gonzaga SOUTH REGION: South Region Champion: Georgetown EAST REGION: East Region Champion: Miami (FL) THE FINAL FOUR: Gonzaga over Michigan State; Georgetown over Miami (FL) NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: … Read More The Definitive Dubsism NCAA Tournament Bracket – See If You Can Beat It
If you are my age, you remember “Emergency!” – the Jack Webb-produced homage to firefighter and paramedics. This was my favorite show when I was seven years old, and it made me want to be a firefighter, until I realized they are basically mailmen who get to drive a way cooler truck and have to… Read More College Basketball EMERGENCY! Dr. Brackett Is Here To Doctor Your Bracket
OK, so I get that the Berlin Wall came down close to 25 years ago. But it still has far-reaching impacts. Stolichnaya vodka isn’t hard to get anymore. Guys can beat off to pictures of Maria Sharapova without feeling like a traitor. And college basketball is full of guys with names that can’t be pronounced… Read More Thanks To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, College Basketball Is Full Of Names I Can’t Pronounce
Absolutely. It is pants-shittingly funny for a whole host of reasons. , and on so many levels. Let’s just go through the story to see why. An Illinois town’s little league program is raffling an AR-15 assault rifle to raise money. Atwood Armory is raising money for the Atwood-Hammond Little League program to replace old… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is it Hilarious That a Little League Group Is Raffling An Assault Rifle?
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Being that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is in his first full day as Pope Francis, and since he’s the first to take the name Francis, here’s hoping we are the first to notice how much he looks like Yankee legend Yogi Berra.
I’ll admit, it is really only the mention of tetherball that provides even the loosest tie to the world of sports, but if there were ever a sign that we are hurtling toward the apocalypse, this HAS to be it. Let’s be honest. The American approach to sex education has throughout history has been incredibly… Read More Signs We Are Near the End Of Civilization: They Are Teaching Your Kids To Masturbate with a Tetherball Pole
As a Philadelphia Eagle fan, of all people I know what it is like to watch your team languish in the doldrums of mediocrity. For example, I know what it is like to watch a team enter a season with Jeff Kemp as the starting quarterback (shudder). But I also know what it is like… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 4: Minnesota Vikings’ Fans Need To Quit Whining About Losing Percy Harvin
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In today’s episode of the SBM Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism examine how the sports media has exposed it’s own hypocrisy with the all the commentary that has surrounded Chicago Bulls’ guard Derrick Rose stating that he doesn’t feel ready to play after…
Let’s face it. Your city sucks. You may not see why your city sucks, because you live there. Much like skunks can’t smell themselves, being a resident may blind you to the mountains of suck that surround you. Trust me, I’ve lived in several of these cities; one of them is essentially my “hometown,” and… Read More The 51 Professional Sports Cities In North America and Why They All Suck
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Oddly enough, while we were making fun of B1G Ten commissioner Jim Delany’s quest for world domination, we noticed that Delany bears a striking resemblance to Jeff Dunham’s prototypical crabby old man character Walter.
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In the initial episode of the SBM Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism breakdown the amazing performance to date of the Chicago BlackHawks, who are flat-out running away from the rest of the National Hockey League. Chicago seems like a cinch to capture…
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Time for a little college hockey love while we point out that former North Dakota Fighting Sioux and current Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks head coach Dean Blais and formerly funny late night guy David Letterman were obviously separated at birth.
Free agency came to baseball in the 1970’s, which coincidentally happens to the same decade in which I became a baseball fan. In that time, I’ve watched many team make great moves in to secure that “one piece they needed” to win. I’ve also seen lots of complete gag-jobs; a team drives a dump truck… Read More The Dubsism Ten Worst Baseball Free Agent Signings
Today’s installment has a bit of a Sesame Street feel to it, as it is brought to you by the letter “R” and the number “36,” all of which have to do with the fact that future football Hall of Famer Randy Moss needs to realize his playing days are over. Hat tip to Blog… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 3: Randy Moss Needs To Retire
Today’s installment of the Dubscast revolves around how fans of the Los Angeles Lakers need to get off the idea that bringing back Phil Jackson can revive the glory days. The Lakers have three main problems, and J-Dub explores those, and why “The Zen Master” can’t fix any of them.
This season, the Washington Nationals are adding a new contestant to their President’s Race. While we all know this move is just adding to the field so that Teddy Roosevelt remains the president who almost never wins, we can’t figure out why they picked William Howard Taft. Taft was the only president who also served… Read More Presidents the Washington Nationals Could Have Chosen Rather Than Taft
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