Without a bunch of fluff, it’s time to look at some things that happened last week that you won’t see again this week. In other words, let’s not go overboard on some things: 1) The Redskins are not as good as they looked, and the Giants aren’t as bad as they looked (but not by… Read More Five Things You Saw In NFL Week One That You Won’t See in Week Two
If you are my age, you remember those Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. Essentially, they were literary classics for the short American attention span. Why wade through 600 pages of a classic when you can get the jist in 50? I read a good article on the NBA lockout the other day, but it was by… Read More Condensing Bill Simmons To A Comprehensible Level To Understand the NBA Lockout
While the rest of America is looking to remember 9/11 on its tenth anniversary, a decade from now people in Indiana may be remembering 9/8; the day their football world collapsed. Yes, I understand that comparing a medical procedure on a football player to an act of war that changed the entire world is completely… Read More An Open Letter To Indianapolis Colts Fans: Like It Or Not,The Peyton Manning Era Is Over
I’ll give you the moral of this story up front. This is what happens when a die-hard Penn State fan marries into a decidedly Boilermaker family. Not only is my wife a Purdue alum, her father is a chemistry professor at Giant Drum A&M. If that weren’t enough, the wedding was being held literally within… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: The Day JoePa Made a Clandestine Appearance At My Wedding
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 2011 Pre-Season NFL Power Rankings
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 Labor Day Edition – The Contenders vs. The Pretenders Edition
Because we are into the greatest 12 weekends of the year, it is also time to remind some people of just who they are. In other words, we are taking the pre-season Dubsism Top 25 and reminding them that they suck. Let’s be honest, a big part of college football is trash-talking. This is exactly… Read More Trash-Talking the 2011 Top 25
For listeners of the Dan Patrick Show, today you got to hear the best college football writer in this country tell his tale about how he got a hard, unlubricated screw-job from the management at ESPN. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Deadspin offers a very good re-cap here, complete with audio from… Read More In Honor of Bruce Feldman, Let’s Hear Your Management Horror Stories
This may just be the usual rookie hazing, but this represents something that has gone just a bit too far in this country. This is Anthony Bass of the San Diego Padres, a team that has a tradition of making the rookies wear “Star Wars” backpacks. Frankly, this is just a glimpse of a much larger… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Star Wars Geekery Must Be Stopped
In 2006 during the Ohio State game, midway through the second quarter, Penn State is preparing to punt on 4th down when suddenly Joe Paterno trots into the backfield as if he’s going to take the snap. But he keeps going…in a beeline for the Penn State locker room. Stranger still, JoePa doesn’t return until after… Read More Great Moments In Joe Paterno History: JoePa Has A Run Longer Than His Offense Does
There’s two weeks until the first weekend of the NFL regular season, and I’ve already got a belly full of the quarterback controversy in Denver. From the moment the Broncos used a first-round pick to draft Tim Tebow, both he and Kyle Orton have been joined at the hip in what has to be one… Read More Are Tim Tebow and Kyle Orton Both Victims of Stupidity?
This moment requires a bit of preparation on your part. Before you read any further, take a moment and jot down all a few of your best “old man yelling “get off my lawn jokes.’” Then watch the video. The camera crew became the Beaver Stadium equivalent of the kids looking to get their Nerf… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Attacks a Camera Man
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska, the Big Ten has twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will be sticking with Big… Read More Penn State ’11 – When The Ten That Was Eleven Became Twelve
This past weekend, we had yet another episode of violence at a sporting event. This time, three people were seriously injured in separate incidents at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park during a 49ers-Raiders game. So far, two have been upgraded to fair condition, one was a 24-year-old man who was shot several times in the stomach, and… Read More 49ers-Raiders Aftermath – Get Ready For Another Classic Over-Reaction
EDITOR’S NOTE: This list is being completed on the assumption that the NCAA will (or should, at least) rule Ohio State, Miami (FL), and Auburn ineligible for post-season competition. These picks will be noted. Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 9th, New Orleans, Louisiana, Superdome Traditional/Contractual Matchup: BCS #1 vs. BCS #2 – Alabama… Read More The Dubsism 2011-2012 College Football Bowl Predictions
While this story occurred in 1969, we here at Dubsism happen to enjoy the 2008 telling of the tale; largely because that’s the best Youtube video we can find. Anyway, the background is as follows…in 1969, Penn State is on its ascendance to national prominance; the Nittany Lions are one of three undefeated teams in… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Tells President Nixon to “Shove It”
Buzz Bissinger over at the Daily Beast weighed in on this burgeoning story on Thursday, and at first, I thought the man’s cheese has slipped off its cracker. But as I let myself digest this piece over a few days; as I let myself look at this situation in a larger perspective, I came to… Read More The University of Miami: A Dissection Of A Complete Over-Reaction That Is Largely Correct
It’s 2010, immediately after Penn State got their collective Nittany ass handed to them by Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Paterno makes a statement about how “we didn’t coach good enough,” at which point some idiot reporter asks a question which is merely a repeating of what Paterno just said. Naturally, the coach loses it just like… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: Alabama Reporters Piss Him Off
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 2011 Dubsism Pre-Season College Football Rankings
As part of the run-up to the greatest twelve Saturdays of the year, Dubsism will be bringing you a series dedicated to memorable moments in the history of the greatest coach in college football. With that, we give you the first installment… It’s 1995 in the Meadowlands. Rutgers head coach Doug Graber and his coaching… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Curses On Live Television
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