Boyd is back dishing up his two-fisted opinions on the world of sports. If you can’t stand the heat, stay away from the “hot takes!”… Read More Ask a 70’s TV Sports Anchor – Boyd Bergquist is Back!
Just the idea of curlers on “the gas,” should make your brain explode. But it’s worse than you think.… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Now There’s Performance-Enhancing Drugs In Curling
Strychnine is a neurotoxin which acts as an antagonist of glycine and acetylcholine receptors. We’ll explain that for you.… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Olympic Weightlifter Tests Positive For Rat Poison
Forget about defining “gender.” What does “fairness” really mean?… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization – Dude Looks Like A Lady, Rio-Style
Even in retirement, A-Rod will be central to the hypocrisy involved in baseball’s “steroid era.”… Read More Why Wouldn’t A-Rod’s Retirement Be Full of Intrigue?
15) The College Football Play-off and the ESPN-ization of Bowl Games There are two words to describe how we got this four-team playoff to determine the college football national champion. Television Money Don’t even try to deny that. Sure, you can point out that we really aren’t adding any games with this play-off, which is… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2014
I’ve said multiple times on this blog that I think the whole steroid argument is a bunch of crap. Whether or not you believe that, there’s no denying the current situation with Lance Armstrong, when viewed against some other past instances, proves the typical American sports fan is a selective over-reactor when it comes… Read More Steroids Prove America Is A Nation of Selective Over-Reacters
It’s no secret that I have been a long-standing and vocal critic of the idea that performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)are the scourge on baseball the media has made them out to be. I’ve illicited my argument to that effect time and time again on this blog, and the recent discussion of the Ryan Braun situation has… Read More Finally, Someone Else Gets It, Part II – The Ryan Braun Situation, “Osama” Bud Selig and “Chemical McCarthyism”
Once again, the issue of “performance-enhancing drugs” has reared it’s head in baseball. This time, the controversy revolves around National League MVP Ryan Braun’s 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance was overturned on Thursday by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das. This set the stage for Braun to give a seemingly-heartfelt speech of vindication, Major… Read More How The Ryan Braun Situation Proves The Whole “Steroid” Debate Is B.S.
We’ve gotten to the point where you can’t have a discussion about the history of baseball without it getting mired into the “S-word”…steroids. Yet, leave it to the outspoken Curt Schilling to add yet another log on the “get over it” fire that really needs to be lit under the collective asses of the “steroid… Read More Curt Schilling: No Team Has Won Cleanly in Last 20 Years
Now that we’ve made it past Baseball’s Hall of Fame Weekend, and since Bert Blyleven finally has been inducted, you may have thought you were safe from my annual Hall of Fame rant. You were wrong. I have lots of rants when it comes to this institution. So there’s no misunderstanding, there’s only one guy… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Run-Down on Who Belongs in The Baseball Hall of Fame
Perfect…this is just what we need. Over the next 24 hours, you can expect ESPN to overflow with lawyers numbing your brain about the legal nuances in play here. We here at Dubsism intend to do no such thing. Rather, we will expose you to what is being reported and then translate it into what… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Mistrial Declared in Roger Clemens’ Steroid Trial
It may be that I finally have become the grumpy old man (it doesn’t help that I idolize Joe Paterno), but given some recent past events, I think we are witnessing the destruction of what was once the wonder of sports. Honestly, I’m a middle-aged guy whose formative years were in the late 70’s and… Read More Why Sports Will Suck In The Future
A while back I wrote about what I believed to be the Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports. Leading that list is the steroid scandal tainted the integrity of baseball. One of my primary assertions is steroids were an easy scapegoat for a host of other factors which have changed the game. Allow me to reprise… Read More Finally, Somebody Else Gets It
10) Michael Jordan Was the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century You can thank ESPN for this exercise in the power of the present. Back at the turn of the century, the World Wide Leader published its list of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and placed Jordan at the top of that list. One… Read More The Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports
Wow, you learn something new every day. Take the effects of anabolic steroids for example. Granted, I knew they made you into the Incredible Hulk, as well as giving you pimples, making your head triple in size, and shrinking your manbits into raisins, but I had no clue they completely divorced you from reality. That… Read More I Didn’t Realize Steroids Caused Delusional Behavior
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