For purposes of full disclosure, I have far too many people in my life who call themselves New England Patriot fans. After Sunday night’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens, I have found myself besieged with their caterwauling about bad officials, Joe Flacco, and every other reason they can think of to distract themselves from the… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The New England Patriots
It’s time for a great exercise in the hypocrisy that is political correctness. In terms of the treatment of homosexuals, the pendulum of social acceptance has taken a great swing. Thirty years ago, being intolerant of homosexuals was perfectly acceptable, and while idiocy will never be completely eradicated, tolerance has now become the norm rather… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Somehow, There’s a Belief That Being Gay Excludes You From The Rules
First, there was yesterday’s news the University of Notre Dame was joining Atlantic Coast Conference for all sports except football (although there will play 5 ACC team in football per season). But that isn’t the really shocking news; we all knew someday Notre Dame would “buddy up” to a conference. What surprised us all was… Read More First The ACC, Now Notre Dame Is Taking Over The Catholic Church
It’s time for another one of our patented Dubsism comparisons with another gem we found over at Listverse. As the title suggests, we found a list of ten books that literally defy explanation, until you realize the sports world is full of figure who could have easily written such strange stuff. 10) How to Abandon Ship… Read More The Top 10 Bizarre Books and The Sports Figures Who Could Have Written Them
Right now, football fans are having a field day shitting on these guys. Granted, they are easy to shit on because they are terrible. Frankly, I think people ought to get off their backs; it is not a crime to suck at a job you aren’t ready for unless your suckitude might kill people.… Read More The NFL Replacement Referees Are Exposing The Fallacy of Instant Replay
It’s no secret that the advisory board here at Dubsism is laden with fans of the Minnesota Twins. The Chairman of that board, the esteemed Dick Marple, is our man on all things Twins, and the newspaper article he pointed out was simply to good not to share. To appreciate this, you don’t need to be… Read More A Kubrick-Style Breakdown of Minnesota Twins’ GM Terry Ryan’s Descent Into Madness
If I started typing now and typed until I wore off my own fingerprints, typed until my hand muscles cramped up and ripped themselves off my hand bones like a future gastric-bypass patient vacuum-cleaning a family-bucket at KFC, and typed until the radiation from my monitor burned smoking craters through my skull, I still would… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Dallas Cowboys
In my last baseball rankings, I said the All-Star break to me has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This means Labor Day marks the beginning of the home stretch; everybody has less than thirty games to play; everybody’s made their non-waiver and waiver trade… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Homestretch Edition – The Contenders vs. The Pretenders
EDITOR’S NOTE: This list is being completed based on who has been ruled ineligible for post-season play as of today’s date. Having said that, there are some noteworthy points concerning this bowl season. From CollegeFootballPoll.com: BCS Selection Order: The order of selection for this year’s BCS games is Fiesta, Sugar, Orange. However, the bowls that… Read More The Dubsism 2012-2013 College Football Bowl Predictions
In the world of baseball, August is that time when guys get put on waivers for purposes of either being traded or to gauge if there is any trade interest on a big-contract player. But to make this tactic work, you must understand the concept of timing. The Minnesota Twins clearly do not understand this.… Read More By Putting Joe Mauer on Waivers, The Minnesota Twins Prove They Are Completely Clueless
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. There is a rule in the blogosphere that says if you tag more than three posts with “college football,” you are required to do a pre-season ranking. Failure to do so will get your nose flayed and your genitals set on fire. With that…teams are… Read More The 2012 Dubsism Pre-Season College Football Rankings
As we find ourselves on the verge of another NFL season, it is time for the degenerate gambler in me to preview the carnage. Let’s face it, the NFL is comprised of three classes: Really Good, Mediocre, and Lousy. This means NFL predictions are pretty easy to get reasonably correct. For example, the online sports… Read More The Dubsism 2012 Pre-Season NFL Power Rankings
This will be the first Penn State post I’ve written in months which is solely about football. I’ve got plenty of other posts in which I discuss the obvious problem we’ve just dealt with. There are a bunch of kids who showed the one thing Paterno always preached: loyalty. Now its time to talk about… Read More Penn State Football 2012: The Rebuilding Begins
Back in January, Drew Magary from Deadspin posed five hypothetical questions about Tim Tebow. These questions were so interesting they required a Dubsism response. Now that Tebow continues to be an NFL version of a lighting rod in cleats, perhaps it is time to ask a few more questions that you simply won’t find anywhere… Read More Tebow-Mania, Part II: Five More Questions About Tim Tebow
Now that the 30th Olympiad is in the books, it is time for us here at Dubsism to bring you a rundown of all the things important to remember about the London games; more than just those American-centric things brought to you by the American media. We really can’t bash on NBC too much since,… Read More What We’ve Learned: The 2012 London Olympics
Naturally, this all stems from the Dwight Howard trade. For purposes of full disclosure, SportsChump is one of the few bloggers we here at Dubsism have any respect for; in fact J-Dub been interviewed on his site, and has appeared on SportsChump’s podcast. Having said all that, the Chump saw fit to launch a Scud Missile… Read More A Dubsism Breakdown of SportsChump’s Ten Perfectly Valid Reasons To Hate The Los Angeles Lakers
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you know that Dwight Howard is a now a Los Angeles Laker thanks to a monstrous, four team deal involving both players and draft picks. This was such a complex deal which obviously took so much time to construct that we here at Dubsism took… Read More The Official Dubsism Breakdown of the Dwight Howard Trade
I’ll try to keep this simple. Let’s start with the basic facts. Tuesday’s Olympic women’s soccer semifinal between the U.S. and Canada was one of the most dramatic games you’ll ever see. It also had some of the shittiest officiating you’ll see this side of Major League Baseball. Tuesday’s Olympic individual event finals in women’s gymnastics… Read More A Few Thoughts On Canadian Women’s Soccer and American Women’s Gymnastics
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. This time last year, we were just getting over a labor dispute with the players which threatened to wipe… Read More Five Things You Need To Know About The NFL Labor Dispute with the Referees
Baseball is sport full of “unwritten rules;” you hear about them all the time. That’s why we here at Dubsism decided to break down the most common ones to see if they really have practical applications. Unwritten rules about etiquette: Pitchers never show up their fielders. This is just a matter of being a good… Read More A Practical Examination of The Unwritten Rules of Baseball
