Since the Final Four is now set and the odds say the team you were cheering is on the bus headed back home, we here at Dubsism feel compelled to keep you informed as to which teams you should not be behind. In today’s installment, we explore the reasons why the West Virginia Mountaineers don’t deserve your support. … Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: West Virginia
Of all people, I am the one who understands making the big road trip for a college football game. I’ve made a sixteen-hour one way drive just for a Penn State game in Happy Valley more times than I care to admit. If you think that is a bit much, ask yourself a question. What… Read More We’ve Just Found The World’s Craziest Man
To really comprehend what happened to my bracket, it is key to understand the term “catastrophe.” From Merriam-Webster Online: Main Entry: ca·tas·tro·phe Pronunciation: \kə-ˈtas-trə-(ˌ)fē\ Function: noun Etymology: Greek katastrophē, from katastrephein to overturn, from kata- + strephein to turn Date: 1540 the final event of the dramatic action especially of a tragedy a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune… Read More The Road to the Frozen Four: Welcome to My Wreckage
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. First of all, I want to say that stuff Reggie Dunlop was spreading about me wearing dresses is a bunch of bunk. He’s… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on the International Bowl
We all know contract negotiations can be a dirty business. In order for both parties to achieve satisfaction there is so much back and forth and in and out mixed with the general writhing sometimes just to close the deal, they lose sight of the value of the deal in the first place. Time for some brutal… Read More Pick the Washington Nationals’ First “Wang” Joke
Seriously, if it weren’t for the good people at Failbooking.com, we may never have seen this pure bit of delight. Sure, it pre-dates Cutler’s current Chicago reign of suckitude, but who can resist cheap shots at Vanderbilt AND Duke… My personal favorite: “Jay Cutler is a Dallas Cowboys fan.” What more proof is there of extreme… Read More Would You Be Facebook Friends With Jay Cutler?
Obviously, because you can’t anymore. But really, it’s time for all of us to be done with Kansas basketball and its history of Bradley, Bucknell, and now Northern Iowa-type debacles. I really expected I could wait until the Final Four before I needed to write about why Kansas wouldn’t win, but once again the Jayhawks… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Kansas Jayhawks
There is a proposal afoot to expand the NCAA Basketball tournament to as many as 96 teams. It really isn’t like this is a new idea. Hell, at one point the idea was to just put everybody in the damn thing. Throughout its history, the NCAA tournament has been an ever-growing, ever-changing entity that has morphed into… Read More On Expanding the NCAA Basketball Tournament
You could fill volumes with what money can’t buy. How many of us played ball as kids in the backyard pretending to be the star player for the hometown team? No amount of money will bring back that moment, but Joe Mauer gets paid to live it. Even all the money Mauer just banked from… Read More Its Joe Mauer’s World…You Are Just Living In It
If you are like the rest of America today, you woke up noticing those giant, smoldering piles of rubble everywhere. Once you realized those were merely the remains of everybody’s NCAA Basketball bracket, you pretty much went on with your day. If you bothered to do the crash-scene investigation, you might have noticed what killed… Read More Don’t Worry, There’s Always Another Bracket You Can Collapse
Does Charlie Daniels scare the shit out of French guys acting like cowboys (note him hiding behind the cactus)? I’m pretty sure the NIT found this as a way to finally generate some interest; perhaps all they need is an official name change to the “Nad Impact Tournament.” Tuesday night was a real nut-buster jamboree,… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Does America Love Groin Injuries?
Out of the clear blue sky, the Washington Nationals unconditionally released Elijah Dukes today. Dukes was slated to be the teams starting right fielder, but now he is no longer welcome in D.C. There is also that “special” kind of silence surrounding the whole thing which makes on think perhaps Dukes finally pissed off the… Read More Is Elijah Dukes the Next Milton Bradley?
Rankings By Division: American League: AL East: 1) New York Yankees Upside: The Bombers easily could have turned on the money-hose and flooded out free-agents like Jason Bay or Matt Holliday, or they could have wasted some serious dough by resigning an over-valued Johnny Damon. But, instead of having their usual explosive cash-gasm, they realized their in-house options are… Read More The 2010 Dubsism Major League Baseball Pre-Season Rankings
The first round of the mayhem known as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) is a best-of-three series, but some teams didn’t get the memo, deciding instead to require a bit of extra hockey on Friday night. Both of the extended games went as expected, with St. Cloud State continuing its overtime woes, and Colorado College finding… Read More The Western Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament – The Final Five
In the ongoing trial involving Minnesota Vikings’ defensive tackles Kevin and Pat Williams and the weight-loss supplement StarCaps, the core question at hand is whether the NFL violated Minnesota law by suspending the two players. Granted, this case is no different from most legal cases as it involves some complexities that aren’t immediately apparent. One of the witnesses… Read More The Favre-gasm Is Now A Matter of Public Record
If you are a sports junkie like me, you listen to a lot of sports radio and get even more fixes from many forms of sports media. For the past week, all that media has been dominated by the exploits of Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Even if you aren’t a sports junkie, you’ve had to… Read More Why Hasn’t Ben Roethlisberger Been Executed Yet?
For all of you who, like myself, despise the New York Yankees, feast your long-suffering eyes on this: That’s right…that’s the grandstand of the old Yankee Stadium being turned into so much rubble. The stadium where the hopes and dreams of so many non-Yankee teams have died a slow, painful death can now watch the… Read More Porn Only Wishes It Could Excite You As Much As This Does
Well, I was right. If you are a blogger and you post something complimentary of ESPN’s Colin Cowherd, your inbox will become a repository of white-hot, flaming diatribes about the man’s alleged douchbaggery. Look, all I’m saying is that when the guy is right, he’s right. I’m certainly not saying he sometimes isn’t a monstrous… Read More Your Colin Cowherd Moment of the Day
Remember this woman? It’s perfectly understandable if you don’t, as it is an open secret that Americans only pretend to care about the Olympics every four years. It is also possible that you may recall her looking more like this: If you still don’t know, that’s disgraced Olympic trackster Marion Jones moments before she was stripped of… Read More WNBA To Be More Like NBA By Recruiting Felons
I’ve always liked Jim Sorgi, ever since his days quarterbacking the Wisconsin Badgers. Having lived in Minnesota and therefore having had to live with the insufferable Minnesota football fans, I appreciated anybody that used Paul Bunyan’s Axe to consistently cut the balls off Goldy Gopher. But the poor guy just can’t get away from America’s… Read More Jim Sorgi Just Can’t Get Out From Behind a Manning
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