History says if you want to see the Dubsism Heavyweight Championship belt in South Bend, you’d better look fast. … Read More Your New College Football Heavyweight Champion: The Notre Dame Fighting Irish
“Rudy” is a lying, delusional, “participation trophy” dick-face who everybody would hate in real life. So, why do they love him in a movie?… Read More Movies Everybody Loves That I Hate – Episode 12: “Rudy”
Another college football regular season in this book; now it’s time to learn from the mistakes.… Read More What We Learned: The 2018 College Football Regular Season
Mr. Bergquist returns to tackle the mailbag here at Dubsism in his usual two-fisted approach.… Read More Ask a 70’s TV Sports Anchor – Episode 4: Boyd Talks Baseball, Basketball, and More!
Challenging long-held beliefs usually draws fire. Keep your head down as you read this one. … Read More The Deep Six – “Busting” Myths About College Football
So what if your team is in the Sweet Sixteen? They still suck. … Read More Trash-Talking the 2016 Sweet Sixteen
Back in 2005, the NCAA declared that Native American mascots were “hostile and abusive” and outlawed them. Eight years later, the fact they are still around may be the perfect example of why the NCAA is the standard by which one measures ineffective and hypocritical organizations. The fact the debate spread beyond that is even… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 5: “Offensive” Mascots Prove The Hypocrisy of the NCAA
America is a country capable of incredible acts of class, and is also capable of the exact opposite. The Highlight: It was pure class the way the St. Louis Blues paid tribute to baseball icon and St. Louis legend Stan “The Man” Musial. The Lowlight: The asswipes at PETA using the Manti Te’o situation to… Read More The Disparity In Class In America Summed Up In Two Pictures
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. By now, we all know the story of the Notre Dame linebacker and his fictional girlfriend. the problem is the more we discover, the less we know. As this continues to unfold, as of this writing there are some big questions for which I have yet to… Read More What Is The Real Reason Why Manti Te’o Did What He Did?
Of course they were…for 12 out of 13 weeks. There was a brief moment in the 2012 college football season where the Golden Domers wore the legitimate shine of being ranked #1. To be fair, there being over-rated at all other times this season was a function of the fact that they played a schedule… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Was Notre Dame Over-Rated?
In the wake of last night’s crushing at the hands of Alabama, this blog can easily be seen as “piling on.” Those who might say that would be 100% correct. Guess what, Notre Dame? Today, America is savoring your dismantling because the vast majority of America hates you. Eyeball-popping, color-changing, bile-spewing hatred, and you bring… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: Notre Dame Football
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Los Angeles Kings Win The Stanley Cup For purposes… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2012
Since I live in Indiana, I’ve heard an amplified level of bitching about Note Dame linebacker Manti T’eo getting “screwed” out of the Heisman Trophy Saturday night. To keep this simple, it is time for Notre Dame fans to realize that Te’o was never going to win…never. Yeah, I get that even after a quarter-century… Read More An Open Letter to Notre Dame Fans: Stop Whining About Manti T’eo Not Winning The Heisman
Do you remember the the old saying about one picture being worth a thousand words? Well, this picture destroys at least three assumptions. 1) All Cheerleaders Are Hot Apparently at Notre Dame, chicks who look like a “short bus” version of Jan Brady get to wave the pom-poms, even if they don’t provide any of… Read More Now That Notre Dame Football Is Relevant Again, It’s Time To Start Shit-Talking The Irish
First, there was yesterday’s news the University of Notre Dame was joining Atlantic Coast Conference for all sports except football (although there will play 5 ACC team in football per season). But that isn’t the really shocking news; we all knew someday Notre Dame would “buddy up” to a conference. What surprised us all was… Read More First The ACC, Now Notre Dame Is Taking Over The Catholic Church
If I started typing now and typed until I wore off my own fingerprints, typed until my hand muscles cramped up and ripped themselves off my hand bones like a future gastric-bypass patient vacuum-cleaning a family-bucket at KFC, and typed until the radiation from my monitor burned smoking craters through my skull, I still would… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Dallas Cowboys
In what may actually be good news for Notre Dame football, quarterback Tommy Rees was arrested early this morning (from Yahoo Sports). SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees has been arrested and jailed on a preliminary felony charge following a confrontation with officers early Thursday, police said. Rees, 19, was arrested on charges of… Read More The South Bend Trifecta – Notre Dame Football, The Rees Family, and The Slammer
Geno Auriemma is an angry guy. When he’s not busy calling all of you “misogynists,” he’s blaming Notre Dame for all the re-alignment madness currently gripping college football. I mention this only because I know the legions of college football fans have been on pins and needles wondering about the ramblings of a women’s basketball… Read More Geno Auriemma: The Collapse of the Big East Is All Notre Dame’s Fault
Yes, you read that correctly…From the good people at Bad Jocks.com, it seems the sister of Notre Dame’s starting quarterback decided Saturday night’s game at Ross-Ade Stadium was a good time to kick some Boilermaker butt. So, a fight breaks out in the stands during last Saturday’s game in West Lafayette, Indiana between the Purdue… Read More You Know Purdue Is Weak When the Opposing Quarterback’s Sister Can Kick Their Ass
With such a full weekend of college and NFL action, let’s just cut to the chase… 1) We still don’t know if Notre Dame is any good Every year, Notre Dame gets over-rated, and every year, they prove that by the time they get to Purdue. This year, they’ve done nothing but send a mixed… Read More What We Learned From This Week In Football 10/3/2011
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