Change Joe McGrath’s Mind: The NHL Is Headed For Strike Three
Why would the NHL do something that’s already failed twice? Legendary general manager Joe McGrath knows…… Read More Change Joe McGrath’s Mind: The NHL Is Headed For Strike Three
Why would the NHL do something that’s already failed twice? Legendary general manager Joe McGrath knows…… Read More Change Joe McGrath’s Mind: The NHL Is Headed For Strike Three
James Garner, jealousy, and John Saxon kicking people in the face. What more could you want?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 159: “A Portrait of Elizabeth”
Did Stanley Kubrick really understand hockey? Is that why they call it the Stanley Cup?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 145: “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Only at Dubsism can you learn about the link between The Rolling Stones and the Atlanta Braves, The Blues Brothers and the Minnesota Vikings, and The GoGos and the Olympics – and more…… Read More The Deep Six: “Old School” Rhythm Sections and Their Sporting Equivalents, Part II
Is there enough room to build a meth lab behind an NHL bench?… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 129: The “Breaking Bad in Calgary” Edition
Let’s be honest…”Lerch” could have been a prototypical NHL “enforcer.”… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 128: The “Grim Reaper vs. Lerch” Edition
Not only can you win the usual “bragging rights,” you can win a TJ Oshie UND sweater!… Read More It’s Time For The Dubsism NHL Stanley Cup “TJ Oshiete Puck Pool”
You can’t beat an NHL goon in a fight, but you can beat J-Dub in a play-off challenge.… Read More The Dubsism “Stu Grimson” NHL Stanley Cup Challenge
Our annual tradition continues of recognizing great, yet underappreciated achievements in sports.… Read More The Eighth Annual Dubsy Awards
How are Mike Leach and Vince Gill are linked by hockey and country music?… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 90: The Hockey, College Football, and Nashville Edition
Bruce Burns from SportsAttitudes shares with us 50 years of Flyer-based anguish.… Read More Tales of Depression and Sorrow: The Philadelphia Flyers
The American and the British are two sets of sports fans separated by their mangling of a common language, as is evidenced by the bizarre names they give their teams. … Read More 10 Weirdly Named British Soccer Teams and Their American Sports Counterparts
A whole bunch of look-alikes from all of June’s big sporting events. … Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 83: The “Champions of June” Edition
There’s so much in today’s episode it had to be done in two segments. The first harkens back to a lot of material from the Dubsism archives. We get glimpses into why there’s a Dubsy award named for Gene Mauch, what J-Dub really means when he talks about good “bad” coaches, the old Dubscast series,… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 6- Good “Bad” Coaches and Dave Hakstol Hits The City of Brotherly Love
How long has it been since a Canadian club hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup?… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 82: The “W.C Fields Probably Drank A Lot of Canadian Club” Edition
There’s a big difference between the NHL and fixing cabs.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 81: The “Why The St. Louis Blues Can’t Get Out Of The First Round” Edition
Sometimes, it feels really awesome to be able to say you were right. This is not one of those times, because somebody got barfed on.… Read More SportsChump: Pretty Sure I’ve Made Him a Puckhead
To understand this latest J-Dub/SportsChump collaboration, you need to know that the exceptionally Floridian SportsChump is a recent convert to the religion known as hockey fandom. To most, the idea of ice hockey and Floridians seems as natural a mix as Navy Seals at a Tupperware party, but it actually isn’t that strange if you… Read More Point-Counterpoint – J-Dub and SportsChump on the Growing Popularity of the NHL
Cities all over North America clamor for major league sports franchises. Obviously, with such a demand, it would make sense that major sports leagues tend to place franchises in the larger population markets. But that hasn’t always been the case, and even today there are exceptions to that convention. Currently, the “magic number” seems to… Read More Be It Seattle or Saskatoon, Relocation Not Expansion is the Way To Go For The NHL
Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the nominations for the awards were done exclusively by an internal committee, but we’ve had so much success allowing nominations from the… Read More The Fifth Annual Dubsy Awards