Category: Sports

“Linsanity” Offers a Golden Opportunity to Review the Power of the Fundamentals of Basketball

As we find ourselves in the midst of “Lin-Sanity,” I’ve spent a ton of time watching various and sundry sports commentator types asking the question “How did so many people miss on Jeremy Lin?” There’s an easy answer to this…because he isn’t the same player now that he was even six months ago. That leads… Read More “Linsanity” Offers a Golden Opportunity to Review the Power of the Fundamentals of Basketball

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Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: NASCAR Bans the “General Lee”

Rural America is run by rednecks. One of the beautiful things about rednecks is that they live up to the definition ascribed to them by noted redneck Jeff Foxworthy: “Redneck” is a glorious absence of sophistication. One of the beautiful things about that such a lack of sophistication is they don’t tend to subscribe to such… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: NASCAR Bans the “General Lee”

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The 10 Worst Baseball Umpiring Calls In My Lifetime

With pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, it time to review another beautiful aspect of baseball…bad umpires. While there are so many examples of bad umpires and the bad calls, here are the ten that stand out in my lifetime. 10) Jim Joyce Blows Armando Galarraga’s Perfect Game Let’s be honest…the only reason this… Read More The 10 Worst Baseball Umpiring Calls In My Lifetime

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Nine Unbreakable Records Which Prove Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest Basketball Player Ever

Honestly, this rant has been stuck in my throat for 12 years; ever since ESPN came out with that silly list of Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century. A list that includes horses should be all you need to know about its credibility. But there was just too much “power of present perspective” that allowed… Read More Nine Unbreakable Records Which Prove Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest Basketball Player Ever

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The Ex-Kicker’s Round Table – The Super Bowl Recap Edition

Blogs are not like radio and TV stations, which in order to maintain their FCC licenses are required to air a certain amount of public affairs programming.  That is no excuse for us as a citizenry to be uninformed.  In that spirit, the Sports Blog Movement has assembled a McLaughlin Group-like discussion panel comprised of… Read More The Ex-Kicker’s Round Table – The Super Bowl Recap Edition

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The Dubsism Quarterback Douchebag Scale

Throughout life, we deal with units of measure.  To me, the most interesting are scales; where a level of intensity is assigned to an event or quality based on a quantifiable measure. The world of weather brings us the Saffir-Simpson scalefor hurricane intensity or the Fujita scale for tornadoes. Seismologists categorizes earthquakes according to the Richter scale. However, as a… Read More The Dubsism Quarterback Douchebag Scale

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Ali-Favre Syndrome Now To Be Known as Ali-Farve-Manning Syndrome

If you aren’t familiar, Ali-Favre Syndrome is a diagnosis common amongst aging athletes who lose their ability to tell when it is time to retire. Named for its two most famous examples, Muhammad Ali and Brett Favre, the name needs to be updated today with the news that Peyton Manning does not intend to retire.… Read More Ali-Favre Syndrome Now To Be Known as Ali-Farve-Manning Syndrome

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Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Being In a Super Bowl Commercial Contributes to Extinction

You may want to brace yourself…you may sprain your eyeballs from rolling them at this following story from CBS Cleveland. A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human co-worker, saying all that monkey business proves… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Being In a Super Bowl Commercial Contributes to Extinction

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Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For…The New England Patriots

1) The Brady-Bieber Hair Postulate Having hair that covers your face is only acceptable if you are an ass-kicking sheep-dog. It is not acceptable anywhere else, not even on teen heart-throbs and especially not on quarterbacks. 2) Their general sense of entitlement As evidenced by this t-shirt. There are far too many Patriots fans who… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For…The New England Patriots

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Guest Column: Peyton Manning’s Neck on It’s New Career Options

I’m Peyton Manning’s neck.  I’m creating all kinds of mayhem, and nobody can figure out how. Thanks to me, there’s a team of doctors arguing over whether Peyton’s career is or is not over, and thanks to that,  I’ve got the entire sporting world having that same pointless discussion. Face it, I have so much… Read More Guest Column: Peyton Manning’s Neck on It’s New Career Options

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Guest Column: Jim Rockford on the Power of Delusion in the NCAA

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… Read More Guest Column: Jim Rockford on the Power of Delusion in the NCAA

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