Purdue needs a new head football coach. J-Dub has a list of realistic possibilites… Read More Open Letter To Purdue AD Mike Bobinski: Here’s Your Realistic List of Potential Football Coaches
Purdue fans need to seriously think about with whom they replace Darrell Hazell.… Read More An Open Letter to Purdue Football Fans: Firing Darrell Hazell Is Only The Beginning
I’m not a Purdue fan, but I live in Purdue country, and even I’m tired of this shit. … Read More Five Questions I Would Love Purdue’s Matt Painter To Answer
The most revered honors in sports not currently being given to glorified drag queens.… Read More The Seventh Annual Dubsy Awards
A challenge for the Purdue University president to restore respectability to Boilermaker sports.… Read More Open Letter To Mitch Daniels: It’s Time To Upgrade Purdue Athletics
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
I’m not one to cover Purdue sports despite the fact I live in the heart of Boilermaker country. But since Purdue starts its exhibition season tonight, all I’ve been exposed to in the local sports media is how the Boilermakers are a B1G Ten contender and poised for a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.… Read More OK, I’ve Heard Enough…Purdue Basketball Is Not Going To Be That Good
With the arrival of Tim Tebow in New England, this seems like as good as time as any to explore in detail a discussion I’ve had with several football fans. The NFL of the past few years has become a league infatuated with the passing game to a point where several offenses in this league… Read More The “Tebow Theory:” Eventually, Somebody Is Going To Build An NFL Offense Around a Quarterback Who Can’t Throw
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
OK, so I get that the Berlin Wall came down close to 25 years ago. But it still has far-reaching impacts. Stolichnaya vodka isn’t hard to get anymore. Guys can beat off to pictures of Maria Sharapova without feeling like a traitor. And college basketball is full of guys with names that can’t be pronounced… Read More Thanks To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, College Basketball Is Full Of Names I Can’t Pronounce
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. This was the first year we allowed nominations from the… Read More The 2012 Dubsy Awards
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
Time for some brutal honesty, Boiler Nation. Nobody (and I mean NOBODY) looks at their football schedule and circles the Purdue date; knees knocking with fear. Why is that? After all, Purdue is an original member of the Big Ten and does have a rich football tradition. Hell, you can’t watch a Purdue game without… Read More This Is Why Nobody Fears Purdue Football
For today’s “Purdue Joke of the Day” (although this is equally a shot at the equally putrid Minnesota Gophers), thank the good people over at SB Nation. Comcast guide screens for football games can be an endless source of entertainment, usually for reasons that are purely accidental — typos, incorrect stats or whatever else. Not… Read More Comcast Is Simply Following the Truth in Advertising Laws
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
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
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
Editor’s Note: For purposes of full disclosure, J-Dub is an alum of the University of North Dakota and is a fervent Fighting Sioux hockey fan. In fact, that’ s his real fat ass all Sioux-ed up. For Christ’s sake, the man has a Fighting Sioux shower curtain. We mention this only for purposes of stating… Read More The National Collegiate Hockey Conference – A Super League Is Born
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
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