America’s only medically-sanctioned college basketball bracket challenge… Read More Dr. Brackett’s College Basketball Bracket Challenge Is Here to Give You a March Madness EMERGENCY!
Our first 4-Way Doppelganger, and our first with a poll.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 73: A Boilermaker, The Rifleman, and Two Rocky Jokes
So, what do all the Frank Kaminsky haters think now? The math doesn’t lie.… Read More The Case For Frank Kaminsky as B1G Ten Player of the Year and Future NBA Star
You have to think back to the 1980’s for this one. That was the decade which first brought us North Carolina Tar Heel and Cleveland Cavalier center Brad Daugherty before he became ESPN’s NASCAR expert. If you think going from the NBA to NASCAR is an odd transformation, it can’t be any worse than Daugherty’s… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 72 – The “Soul Man” Edition
Now that the Knicks have bought out A’mare Stoudamire’s contract, and now that he seems to be headed for Dallas, its time for somebody in the Lone Star state to load up on Steve Urkel jokes. For our full series of Doppelgangers, you can see the most recent entries here, or the archived versions here.
Since tonight marks the beginning of the NBA’s All-Star weekend, it only makes sense that we should feature a guy making his first All-Star game. The TV relationship between Ashton Kutcher and Mila “Jackie Burkhardt” Kunis on “That 70’s Show” eventually became an exercise in real-life bumping of fuzzy parts. However, this doesn’t work in… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 70 – Oddly Enough, It’s About “That 70’s Show”
There’s probably a bunch of people in Las Vegas who don’t know why the flags are all at half-mast today. College basketball fans under the age of 30 may not even remember Jerry Tarkanian, and many others may only know him as the guy who chewed on towels. After all, Tark’s University of Nevada-Las Vegas… Read More RIP Jerry Tarkanian – I Knew He Was A Genius Long Before You Ever Heard Of Him
This one almost sounds like the setup to a joke. “So, a future NBA MVP and an excessively weird 1930’s Mexican artist walk into a bar…” But there’s no joke about the fact that New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis and quirky artist Frida Kahlo share some distinct features. For our full series of Doppelgangers,… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 69
This one comes to us from a guy named Jeremy Bellmyer. We here at Dubsism don’t know him, but he knows our regular collaborator Ryan Meehan. While that in and of itself should be enough of an indictment of his character, the fact that he came up with a pretty solid addition to this series… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 66 – Say Hello To My Little Cavalier
15) The College Football Play-off and the ESPN-ization of Bowl Games There are two words to describe how we got this four-team playoff to determine the college football national champion. Television Money Don’t even try to deny that. Sure, you can point out that we really aren’t adding any games with this play-off, which is… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2014
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between J-Dub and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in the Dubsism BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Every four years, the world governing body of soccer (FIFA) holds the pinnacle… Read More Point – Counterpoint: The Basketball World Cup Is Pointless
Thanks to a suggestion from my usual partner-in-crime Ryan Meehan which sent me into a swirl of horrid 80’s music flashbacks, you can sit back and brace yourself for a cavalcade of Lionel Richie jokes. Don’t even try to tell us you don’t see the resemblance; you have to make the mustache a bit “douchier,”… Read More Sports Doppelgangers – Volume 65: Can Derrick Rose Go “All Night Long?”
I’m sure this will prove to be a test of the “Too Soon” rule, but as a guy who lived in Minneapolis when the 35W bridge went down, I couldn’t help but notice how Paul George’s leg suffered a similar epic collapse. Let’s be honest here. Now that I live in Indiana and while I… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 64: Paul George’s New Uniform Number Should Be 35W
On Monday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver has handed Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling a lifetime ban from the NBA, along with issuing the maximum allowable fine of $2.5 million. Silver also said that we will ask the NBA owners to essentially kick Sterling out of the league. Since then, there have been lots of… Read More Could Donald Sterling Win A Lawsuit Against the NBA?
To me, Jack Ramsay will always be the man who got me interested in basketball, and at the time he did it, that was a tall order. Those of you under 30 don’t remember what a time of malaise the late 1970’s were for the NBA. There was such parity in the league that the… Read More RIP Dr. Jack Ramsay
The other day, I did a podcast on this Donald Sterling situation, and one of the things I mentioned in that show is that when it hits the media, racism does a wonderful job of exposing stupidity, both for the jag-off who says the racist comment and invariably for somebody who gets their hand forced… Read More The Donald Sterling Situation Has Exposed Doc Rivers As Either An Idiot Or A Hypocrite
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a never-ending well-spring for bloggers because he just can’t help sticking both feet in his mouth. Once again, he’s done so, and once again, the issue is race. In this episode, J-Dub proposes a unique solution to the problem; one that would be awesome, but won’t happen. You… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 4 – Donald Sterling Strikes Again
Last year, the analogy I made to the disaster that is my bracket was to a crashing airliner. Last year was the first in all my years of this basketball-driven self-flagellation where I lost my champion in the first weekend. This year marks the worst bracket I’ve ever had while still keep all of my… Read More Yet Another Year Where My Brackets Call For a Disaster Analogy
We here at Dubsism are excited to bring you a new feature, an audio podcast to go along with the series of video podcast we produce. In the inaugural episode, J-Dub talks about how NFL free agency is like having a girlfriend who is jet-screaming hot, but is also bat-shit crazy. He also puts to… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 1 – NFL Free Agency and the Phil Jackson Saga
The day after Selection Sunday is historically the best for my brackets; it’s the one day there’s still hope. Sometime between now and the end of the weekend, the hopes for my brackets have generally disappeared faster than a Malaysian airliner. That’s precisely why this post comes with a disclaimer. It’s really not a question… Read More The Dubsism 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket Challenge – Light Fuse and Stand Back
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