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Boyd Bergquist's 2025 Opening Week Baseball Breakdown

EDITOR’S NOTE: Boyd Bergquist was the sports director at KETS-TV in East Tree Stump, Nebraska for almost 40 years.  Known across the Husker state as the voice of the Boy’s High School Basketball Tournament, Bergquist was a four-time winner of the Marv J. Butz “Golden Cob” Award For Excellence In Nebraska Broadcast Journalism. That background, along with his quick if not cliché-riddled wit and…

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Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 160: “Heavy Metal”

Today’s Movie: Heavy Metal Year of Release: 1981 Stars: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty (voices) Director: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas This movie is on my list of essential films. NOTE: This installment of Sports Analaogies Hidden in Classic Movies is not being done as part of a blog-a-thon.  Instead, this is a monthly event hosted by MovieRob called Genre Grandeur. …

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Cooperstown Complaints: Episode 3 - The "Most Valuable" Argument For Dale Murphy

With the list of errors made by the National Baseball Hall of Fame getting so long as to rival the list of criminal charges fitting (insert politician of your choice here), we here at Dubsism decided there couldn’t be a better time to bring common sense back to Cooperstown. Let’s be honest. If you’re a baseball fan, you must have at least an inkling that the Hall of Fame is interminably broken.…

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The Sixteenth Annual "Lawrence Welk NCAA Basketball Bubble Bracket Bonanza" Is Here!

One thing remains the same: To win, you have to pick a better bracket than the most interesting independent sports blogger on the web!~J-Dub Selection Sunday is just days away, which means March Madness is here! The fun begins long before the first tip-off. If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the “Small” conference tournaments to see which bottom-end seed you think might pull off an upset.…

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The Sixteenth Annual Dubsy Awards

It’s the oldest tradition we have here at Dubsism…every January since this blog was created, we have given awards for achievements during the previous year in under-recognized categories in the world of sports. However, as we were buried under yet another onslaught of tremendous nominations, once again January became February. Thanks to all of you in the blog-u-verse, our award committee had…

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Point-Counterpoint - My Love/Hate Relationship With My Rickenbacker 4001

Some things have universal appeal. It’s rare for the beautiful girl to be rejected; not many pass on the keys to a hot sports car. For bassists, the Rickenbacker is just such a thing. Whether they admit it or not, at some point every serious thick-stringer has coveted one. This is my Rickenbacker. There are many like it, but this one is mine #SemperFi #IYKYK The trick to beauty is that whole…

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RIP, Bill Bergey

There’s not many players who could be in the Ring of Honor of two different teams, but Bill Bergey was one of them. Every word I’m writing here as a Philadelphia Eagles fan in the wake of Bergey’s passing is being echoed somewhere by someone in Cincinnati Bengals orange. The early 1970’s was a different era in the National Football League (NFL). Fresh off it’s merger with the rival American…

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RIP, Rickey Henderson

Baseball just lost one of it’s all-time greats. That’s a standard saying which bubbles up at times like this. But in the case of Rickey Henderson, not only is it inappropriately bland…it’s a massive understatement. He was one of the games great personalities…nobody could talk about Rickey Henderson in the 3rd-person quite like Rickey Henderson. More importantly, I believe he was the greatest…

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Change My Mind: Arni's Should Be The "Official Pizza" Of Purdue Football

Today’s Argument: Arni’s Should Be The “Official Pizza” Of Purdue Football I have a modest proposal for boosting Purdue’s football coffers. Fret not, you English Lit majors. This isn’t like Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal; I’m not about to suggest eating Irish children. This is far more disgusting. It’s no secret that Purdue gets mentions on this blog not because of my fandom; rather…

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Announcing the Tenth Annual Wally Hotvedt College Football Bowling Challenge!

Join the pool here! But be sure to read the rules below…Use the pool ID 236810, and you shouldn’t need a password as this pool is open to all…but in case the site asks you for one, just enter the pool ID. NOTE: The deadline for entry is 10:00 A.M. Eastern (United States) time, Saturday December 14th, 2024 For the tenth consecutive year, we here at Dubsism are pleased to bring you the Wally…

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Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 159: “A Portrait of Elizabeth”

Today’s Movie: The Rockford Files – A Portrait of Elizabeth Year of Release: 1976 Stars: James Garner. Noah Berry, Jr., Joe Santos Director: Jerry London This movie is not on my list of essential films, largely because it’s not a movie at all.  It’s an episode from the second season of my favorite television show ever. That’s because this installment of Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic…

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Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 158: “The Sting”

Today’s Movie: The Sting Year of Release: 1973 Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw Director: George Roy Hill This movie is on my list of essential films. NOTE: This installment of Sports Analaogies Hidden in Classic Movies is not being done as part of a blog-a-thon.  Instead, this is a monthly event hosted by MovieRob called Genre Grandeur.  The way it works is every month…

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The Sixteenth Annual Dubsy Award Nomination Ballot

It’s that time of year again for all you loyal Dubsists out there. It’s time yet again for our Thanksgiving-weekend  tradition here at Dubsism; today is the day we open the nomination period for our coveted awards for various achievements in the world of sport. For the fifteenth January in a row, we here at Dubsism will be handing out our awards.  Regardless of where you are reading this, the…

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The J-Dub Gambling Challenge 2024: The "Saturdaius Tandem" Edition

Here we are…Saturdaius Tandem…the fourteenth and final of the Twelve Greatest Saturdays of the Year. Yeah, I know the numbers don’t jibe, but what else would you expect? We now have a college football world with the B1G Ten having being more like the B1G EightTenTeen, the Big 12 with sixteen, and California and Stanford in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Speaking of numbers, Saturdaius Tandem…

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Your New College Football Heavyweight Champion: The Florida Gators

In boxing, “tomato can” is a term referring to a low-ranked fighter with whom contenders pad their records in order to earn a title shot. Once a contender becomes a champion, “tomato cans” stay on the shelf. But in the pre-determined schedule world of college football, champs can still get a tomato-heavy diet. The problem is even the most dented tomato can has a chance to fall of the shelf just…

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The J-Dub Gambling Challenge 2024: The "Supermarket-Brand Mouthwash" Edition

As foreseen, the days of cheap wine had a less than rosy end thanks to another tough week. If you didn’t know, this is all about the descent into the kind of alcoholic splendor that can only spring from a protracted losing streak. That’s why the threat was I’d end up stealing cheap mouthwash because in case you didn’t know, many brands are loaded with ethanol. In fact, drinking mouthwash is so…

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The J-Dub Gambling Challenge 2024: The "Gas Station Wine" Edition

Each week, the J-Dub Gambling Challenge has a theme, some sort of cheap premise as an accoutrement the the standard gambling fare; the cheese to go with a good wine if you will. Last week’s theme was exactly that being centered on wine. Part of that piece was a lament over a recent losing streak bringing the bankroll down to the point only being able to afford “Two Buck Chuck.” Despite that…