At last, our long national nightmare is over. Thanks to the NBC Sports Network, the Dan Patrick Show is back on cable. Well, maybe it wasn’t a national nightmare, but it sure screwed things up at the Dubsism household. First, let’s get through the boring “news” part of this story. NBC Sports Network has acquired… Read More How The Dan Patrick Show Has Taken Over My Life
For purposes of full disclosure, I have far too many people in my life who call themselves New England Patriot fans. After Sunday night’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens, I have found myself besieged with their caterwauling about bad officials, Joe Flacco, and every other reason they can think of to distract themselves from the… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The New England Patriots
It’s time for another one of our patented Dubsism comparisons with another gem we found over at Listverse. As the title suggests, we found a list of ten books that literally defy explanation, until you realize the sports world is full of figure who could have easily written such strange stuff. 10) How to Abandon Ship… Read More The Top 10 Bizarre Books and The Sports Figures Who Could Have Written Them
You may want to brace yourself…you may sprain your eyeballs from rolling them at this following story from CBS Cleveland. A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human co-worker, saying all that monkey business proves… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Being In a Super Bowl Commercial Contributes to Extinction
Barry Petchesky over at Deadspin spins a great story on how the electronic windbag known as Bill Simmons ascended to The Sports Douchebag Hall of Fame ESPN. If you’ve been a regular reader of this blog, you know we are prone to perform a “Breakdown” in order to help you understand what is actually happening,… Read More Deadspin on Simmons, ESPN, and “Reverse Psychology”
If you’ve been a regular reader of Dubsism, you might want to consider checking out a new project we’ve been involved in. The Sports Blog Movement is a consortium of several independent bloggers who cover the world of sports in their own ways. This allows the SBM to offer content unlike what you will find… Read More Introducing the New and Improved Sports Blog Movement
If you ever needed proof that this silly bit of censorship-meets-McCarthyism called “political correctness” has gone too far, the following story from the Salt Lake City Tribune should give you all you need. Just read the first sentence. Some people in Utah’s Canyons School District apparently believe BYU’s mascot (“Cougars”) is offensive to middle-aged women. Re-read… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: “Cougars” Are Now Offensive
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 2011 Dubsy Awards
If you are a blogger, Santa Claus is bringing you this gift of advice from the Dubsism archives.… Read More Guest Column: Santa Claus Has A Brutally Honest Gift For Sports Bloggers
Being that the holiday season is upon us, there is a lot of thought begin given to gift-giving. If you are reading this, then you must be thinking, “Gee, what do I get for the sports blogger in my life?” This allows for another of our comparison pieces with a list published by the good… Read More Ten Pointless USB Devices Compared To Their Equally Useless Sports Figures
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m going to warn you up front…The following piece revolves around a very ugly and uncomfortable topic. This piece contains some offensive language and a discussion of an even more offensive topic. If you are easily offended or are not willing to see a “bare-knuckle” discussion of race relations as they exist in… Read More Open Letter To Bryant Gumbel: You Are A Race-Baiting Parasite
If you are my age, you remember Fotomat. If you don’t remember Fotomat, then you also likely don’t remember rotary dial phones, cars that had carburetors rather than fuel injection, and the days when McDonald’s didn’t pretend to care about your health. You don’t remember the days when you never had to dial somebody’s area code… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/15/2011 – The “Exposed” Edition
I cringe writing this, but I can’t hold my tongue on this completely ridiculous Hank Williams, Jr. situation any longer. The six regular readers of this blog know that while I avoid politics, I am not afraid of strong or even controversial opinions. The “About Dubsism” page on this very blog outlines that. However, unfortunately there… Read More What Grinds My Gears: This Whole Hank Williams, Jr. Mess
Clark Kent isn’t the only journalist who can become a superhero. Clark Judge at CBS Sports.com has the ability to drop his snap-brim hat, horn-rim glasses, and gray flannel suit faster than this speeding blog to become his cape-wearing alter-ego Captain Obvious. I’m sure Judge isn’t the only guy to write a column this week… Read More When Sports Writers Get Too Clever: Obviously, It Doesn’t Take A Superhero To Beat Tom Brady
If you are my age, you remember those Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. Essentially, they were literary classics for the short American attention span. Why wade through 600 pages of a classic when you can get the jist in 50? I read a good article on the NBA lockout the other day, but it was by… Read More Condensing Bill Simmons To A Comprehensible Level To Understand the NBA Lockout
For listeners of the Dan Patrick Show, today you got to hear the best college football writer in this country tell his tale about how he got a hard, unlubricated screw-job from the management at ESPN. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Deadspin offers a very good re-cap here, complete with audio from… Read More In Honor of Bruce Feldman, Let’s Hear Your Management Horror Stories
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Today’s world gives us no shortage of things which make us want to stab ourselves in the eyes. Many… Read More Five Current Events That Piss Us Off and Their Sports Equivalents
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Well, we’re at it again. You need not bother pointing out the pseudo-irony of pointing out… Read More The Ten Types of Bloggers Who Can Burn In Hell
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it well worth the read. There’s many things wrong in the world, which is why some of the things that should be… Read More Ten Things I Hate About Sports Right Now
Honestly, I don’t know why anybody is surprised that Denver Post columnist and ESPN blowhard Woody Paige was accused of plagiarism. Did anybody think this hack was really coming up with half of the stuff he says on his own? Half the time is see him on “Around the Horn” I keep waiting to see… Read More When Bad Things Happen to Dumb People
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