Do you live under a rock? Let’s cut through the guano here. If back in December you didn’t at least suspect that at least one of the “Ohio State Five” would never put on a Buckeye uniform again, you are naive. If after Coach Cheatypants McSweatervest bought the farm last week, you still thought all… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Terrelle Pryor Leaving Ohio State a Surprise?
Every year in mid-October, we get our first BCS (Bowl Championship Series) poll, which allows us collectively as college football fans to begin bitching about it. Every year, right around Thanksgiving time, the bitching hits full-roar because despite the conference championship games which yet to be played, there is always some team who somebody believes… Read More If You Needed More Proof We Need To Rethink a College Football Playoff, Jason Whitlock Said Something I Agree With…Yeah, That Jason Whitlock
Watching the fall of Jim Tressel at Ohio State has been like watching the fall of Nazi Germany. To anybody with a brain, the Nazis were all about evil, but there were still people willing to be apologists for them. While what Tressel was doing hardly qualifies on the same level of evil, but being… Read More But Did Jim Tressel Make The Trains Run On Time?
We here at Dubsism have been on this story for a while…and it keeps getting worse. First, there was Boise State. Boise State started this run by achieving notoriety with its “Smurf Turf” in the 90’s. It just so happens that was done at a time when this out-of-the way school was starting to garner… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Colored Turf UPDATE #2
Frankly, I couldn’t believe this when I first read it. “Nahhh, somebody hacked this page, or I’ve been somehow re-directed to the Onion” I thought to myself. But, no, the page was still Yahoo! News. I literally could feel my blood pressure pulling into the left lane and putting the pedal to the metal toward… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Genderless Babies
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of our File Dump…in short, we here at Dubsism believe that when we have just too many good jokes about somebody that we haven’t gotten around to using, and then their career is over, we just can’t let all those good shots go to waste. Since today… Read More File Dump: The Jim Tressel Edition
If you had to take either Ryan Mallett or Cam Newton, which would you take? If I’m a GM, I’m not touching Cam Newton with a 10-foot pole with a 60-foot pole attached to it. I don’t want anything to do with Newton, period. Newton’s left a paper trail wherever he’s been; there’s solid, documented… Read More Cam Newton or Ryan Mallett?
Let’s face it, college programs cheat. There’s an old saying in college sports, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Recently, we here at Dubsism hung a tag of “dirty program” on Auburn, but to be fair, they are far from the only one. Hell, they probably are all dirty; just because your school may… Read More The 10 Dirtiest College Programs Plus The Ones Of Which I’m Most Suspicious
With the NFL Draft looming, I found a list courtesy of the NFL Network featuring the schools consider to be the Top Ten Football Factories. We here at Dubsism took that list and crossed it against each schools three arguably most interesting players. Be mindful of the fact this list was devised and ordered by… Read More The Top 10 Football Factories – And Some That Didn’t Make The List
The sporting world is full of rivalries which engender so much passion there are clear battle lines drawn between the camps. But what happens to those of us who may feel animus toward both sides? Here’s a list of several such examples that make the collective colon here at Dubsism slam shut like a steel… Read More Famous Sports Rivalries In Which I Hate Both Sides
If there is one thing that is true about Dubsism, it is that we have a fascination with all things Nutt. Now, thanks to the good people at Friends of the Program we have yet another example of how the call of the thespian runs in the Nutt bloodline. When you are trying to put… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Houston Nutt III – College Art Film Hunk
Today’s recipe for going viral on the interwebz – combine the words cheerleader, nude modeling, and Playboy, and BAM! A web sensation is born. Today’s winner is a Mississippi State freshman cheerleader named Taylor Corley. She’s also recently appeared nude in Playboy magazine as “Taylor Stone”. According to the guys at SportsbyBrooks, Corley is still… Read More Mississippi State Cheerleader Shows Her Cowbells
For those of you not familiar with this situation, Mike Haywood was hired last month by the University of Pittsburgh as it head football coach. That lasted less than three weeks when Haywood was fired after his arrest on a felony domestic battery charge. It is crucial to understand what this situation indicates. This is… Read More What The Mike Haywood Situation Indicates – The Five Fallacies of Hiring a Head Coach
Now that 2010 is in the books, it is time to recognize some truly great achievements in the world of sport that may otherwise go unnoticed. With that, I give you the 2010 Dubsy Awards. The Mickey Klutts Award for Unfortunate Naming Winner: Gregor Fucka I don’t care if he’s almost 40 years old, an… Read More The 2010 Dubsy Awards
I’m not going to dance around the issue; I’m just going to come out and say it. I’m not buying Cam Newton’s story. I will admit there is a lot of this story that has yet to emerge. I will admit there is still a ton of speculation that can be entertained. I will admit… Read More Here’s Why I Can’t Buy Cam Newton’s Story…
I have to admit; it has been a busy few weeks and I really haven’t been able to focus as much attention on the things in sports that drive me nuts as I would have like to. But some things just are not going to escape my radar. This past week, the Big Ten announced… Read More The New Big Ten: Adventures in Stupid
In all honesty, one can make a bunch of jokes about how the roof of the “Humptydome” coming down is just a metaphor for all the terrible teams that have played under the Teflon Sky. Make a list and see the trail of sporting tears that have called the Metrodome home. The only resident still… Read More The Real Reason The Metrodome Roof Collapsed
Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 10th; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: #1 vs. #2 The Prediction: Alabama (SEC #1) vs. Ohio State (Big Ten #1) The Actual Matchup: 1# Auburn (SEC#1) vs. Oregon (PAC-10 #1) Payout: $18,000,000 The Silly Prediction: First, the canned commentary: This is the matchup that nearly… Read More The Dubsism 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Matchups: How Wrong Our Predictions Were
How fitting is is that Gopher Nation is already settling into hating Jerry Kill, despite the fact that all he’s done is win wherever he’s been, including beating the Gophers 34-23 at TCF Bank Stadium. Yes, the “Killer” doesn’t even have his bags unpacked yet, and there’s already a “Fire Coach Kill” Twitter feed. Why?… Read More Open Letter to Minnesota Gopher Football – Stop “Kill”-ing Your Coach
Do woodchucks chuck wood? Look, I’ll make it easy for you. I will explain this in a way almost any Auburn grad can figure out: a monstrously obvious rebus…that’s a “picture riddle” for you Plainsmen. A rabid, yet not too bright fan base… + – =
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