What We Learned: The 2018 College Football Regular Season
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
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What We Learned: The 2015 NBA Draft
Moving past wrong predictions, we now need to save Frank Kaminsky from the NBA graveyard known as Charlotte.… Read More What We Learned: The 2015 NBA Draft
What We Learned From Week Two of the 2013 NFL Season
by J-Dub and Meehan Yet another week has passed in the sportsgasm that is the NFL season, and that means it is time for us to tell you some things you need to know without the self-serving spin those assbags at ESPN will never give you. We know this because if you think you can get real football… Read More What We Learned From Week Two of the 2013 NFL Season
What We Learned From Week One of the 2013 NFL Season
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan Without any further fanfare, let’s just get to the stuff week one of the NFL season showed us. 1) Peyton Manning’s performance hid the fact the Broncos’ defense sucks. If Thursday night taught us anything, it’s that the Broncos are indeed going to struggle on the defensive side of the ball. By “struggle,” we’re talking… Read More What We Learned From Week One of the 2013 NFL Season
What We Learned: The 2012 NFL Season Showed Us Two Things About Quarterbacks
1) The “Elite Quarterback” Discussion Got Blown Up The Super Bowl essentially was the induction of Joe “Gummy Bear” Flacco into that silly media-created status of “elite quarterbacks.” Joe Montana’s Right Arm has the best run-down as to why even the most ardent Flacco-haters now have to stifle themsleves, but this piece is more about… Read More What We Learned: The 2012 NFL Season Showed Us Two Things About Quarterbacks
What We’ve Learned From This Football Season – The Aftermath Of “Black Monday” Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
Let’s start with the college guys who still had jobs as of our last update: Mike Price, UTEP What We Said: After going 8-4 in each of his first two years, Mike Price has clinched his seventh consecutive losing season at UTEP and has no contract for next year. Color him toast. What Happened: Price… Read More What We’ve Learned From This Football Season – The Aftermath Of “Black Monday” Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
What We Need To Learn From The Jovan Belcher Tragedy
It is time to talk about some hard realities in America today. Obviously, what happened yesterday in Kansas City is a tragedy by the classic definition of the word. The not-so-obvious tragedy which is going to unfold in the near future is that the deaths of the individuals involved here will not be remembered properly,… Read More What We Need To Learn From The Jovan Belcher Tragedy
What We’ve Learned From This Football Season So Far – The Inaugural Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
Now that the regular season has ended for the majority of college football, many coaches heads have already rolled, and most of those are really no surprise. Joker Phillips, Kentucky Gene Chizik, Auburn John L. Smith, Arkansas Frank Spaziani, Boston College Tom O’Brien, North Carolina State Jeff Tedford, California Derek Dooley, Tennessee Danny Hope, Purdue… Read More What We’ve Learned From This Football Season So Far – The Inaugural Edition of the 2012 Coaches Death Watch
The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Homestretch Edition – The Contenders vs. The Pretenders
In my last baseball rankings, I said the All-Star break to me has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This means Labor Day marks the beginning of the home stretch; everybody has less than thirty games to play; everybody’s made their non-waiver and waiver trade… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Homestretch Edition – The Contenders vs. The Pretenders
What We’ve Learned: The 2012 London Olympics
Now that the 30th Olympiad is in the books, it is time for us here at Dubsism to bring you a rundown of all the things important to remember about the London games; more than just those American-centric things brought to you by the American media. We really can’t bash on NBC too much since,… Read More What We’ve Learned: The 2012 London Olympics
What We’ve Learned: The Six Basic Throws of Olympic Judo
Here at Dubsism, we are all about education. That means as part of our Olympic coverage, we will strive to make sure you in the blog reading public get an opportunity to learn something while staying tuned to our coverage of the 30th Olympiad. In a previous blog, we did make a reference to the… Read More What We’ve Learned: The Six Basic Throws of Olympic Judo
What We’ve Learned: The Baseball Power Rankings at the All-Star Break – The “Haiku” Edition
So, if you are one of the six regular readers of this blog, right now you are asking yourself just what in the hell is Haiku? In short, traditional Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterized by a very restrictive format consisting of 17 syllables in phrases of 5, 7, and 5 syllables… Read More What We’ve Learned: The Baseball Power Rankings at the All-Star Break – The “Haiku” Edition
What We’ve Learned: The Dubsism Memorial Day Baseball Power Rankings
1) Los Angeles Dodgers ↑ 1 What We Originally Said: Upside: Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young last year and is a contender for the award again. He is signed with the Dodgers through 2013. Matt Kemp was the runner-up for the NL MVP Award, and was a single dinger away from joining the 40HR/40 stolen… Read More What We’ve Learned: The Dubsism Memorial Day Baseball Power Rankings
What We’ve Learned: The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings After 10% Of The Season
1) Washington Nationals ↑ 13 What We Originally Said: Upside: The Nationals have one of the best young rotations in baseball. Strasburg appears ready to return to his pre- Tommy John surgery condition, and the acquisitions of Gio Gonzalez and Edwin Jackson were huge. If Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, and Chien-Ming Wang can stay away from the injury… Read More What We’ve Learned: The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings After 10% Of The Season
What We Learned: Super Bowl XLVI…Or As We Call It In America, Super Bowl 46
1) Its time for the Roman numeral thing to come to an end First off, does anybody really remember how those damn things work anyway? I learned them in the sixth grade, and I don’t know about you, but that was just too damn long ago. Not to mention, where the hell else do I… Read More What We Learned: Super Bowl XLVI…Or As We Call It In America, Super Bowl 46
What We Learned About the NFL Heading Into Championship Weekend
1) Fundamentals Still Matter If you wanted to know why the two teams many of us had as the favorites to win this playoff tournament will be spending next weekend working on their collective golf swings, the answer is rather simple. It does not matter how many video game/fantasy football numbers your offense posts, it… Read More What We Learned About the NFL Heading Into Championship Weekend
What We Learned: The NFL Regular Season
1) Andy Reid and Rex Ryan are just photo-negatives of each other Andy Reid is quiet and studious. Rex Ryan is loud and brash. And they’ve both lost their locker rooms. It doesn’t matter where the shit-talking came from, there was far too much of it. While the media didn’t do Reid and the Eagles… Read More What We Learned: The NFL Regular Season
What We Learned From This Weekend In Football 12/10/2011
1) This Tebow Thing Is Now Officially Out of Control I watched the last three minutes of that Bears-Broncos game last night, and I still don’t believe what I saw. Sure, there’s all the stuff that surrounds Timmy Rah-Rah. You can see that on every other outlet out there. But the hype hides the unbelievable… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend In Football 12/10/2011
What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 12/4/2011
1) Stick a Fork in ‘Em… The Philadelphia Eagles Turkeys are Done Just by taking the Sgt. Joe Friday approach (“Just the facts”), one can see it is time to blow up this thing in Philadelphia. The Michael Vick thing was a mistake, DeSean Jackson is a cancer, and the whole “Dream Team” thing was… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 12/4/2011
What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/26/2011 – The Up-To-The-Minute Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
Lots of stuff has happened since we originally started this Coaches’ Death Watch a month ago. Some of it we saw coming, some of it we didn’t, and some of it is simply inexplicable. There’s the guys who bought it before we ever published the inaugural death watch issue. Granted, we messed up when we… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/26/2011 – The Up-To-The-Minute Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
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