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Today’s Movie: The Asphalt Jungle Year of Release: 1950 Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen Director: John Huston This movie is on my list of essential films. Today’s installment of Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies is just one of many contributions to a event called the Marilyn 100th Anniversary Blog-A-Thon  being hosted by Hoofers & Honeys. Kristen is a prolific and…

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…

Today’s Movie: The Bridges at Toko-Ri Year of Release: 1954 Stars: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March Director: Mark Robson This movie is not on my list of essential films. Today’s installment of Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies is just one of many contributions to a event called The 7th Golden Boy Blog-A-Thon hosted by The Flapper Dame and The Wonderful World of Cinema.…

Today’s Movie: Tommy the Toreador Year of Release: 1959 Stars: Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sidney James Director: John Paddy Carstairs This movie is not on my list of essential films. Today’s installment of Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies is just one of many contributions to a event called the 100 Years of Kenneth Williams Blog-a-Thon being hosted by The Wonderful World of Cinema.…

If you’ve been a Dubsist since the beginning back in the Paleozoic Era, you know there have been several plunges into the depths of the podcast world. Well, there’s been another one; this time a return engagement on the long running MovieRobMinute. I’m just a small part of a series with thousands of episodes and a global audience…but it’s got “rabbit holes” unlike any you might imagine. The fun…

Today’s Movie: Field of Dreams Year of Release: 1989 Stars: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta Director: Phil Alden Robinson This movie is not on my list of essential films. NOTE: This installment of Movies Everybody Loves That I Hate is being done as part of something called the Eighth So Bad Its Good Blog-a-Thon being hosted by Taking Up Room. But it’s also squaring up a debt of…

Yesterday is what happens when you live with an animal lover in a place that has wildlife. Granted 95% of said “wildlife” is comprised of ducks and geese who normally would be hanging out on a golf course, except for the fact they found the pond-adjacent backyard now known as “Mrs. J-Dub’s Eco-system.” Despite the garden section lying in it’s winter dormancy, the “air wing” of that eco-system is…

I promise I’ll keep this one short…but the WordPress Daily Wrting Prompt got me again… Daily writing promptDescribe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?View all responses The school store…the first splashes of capitalism as doled out by a 6th grade teacher. To their credit, whoever ran the one in my school knew I was coming. One day, I found my self in needed…

As the title suggests, this series on Dubsism is about how we all have songs inextricably linked in our minds to certain memories. Among advanced-theory psychologists, molecular neurobiologists, and other extreme brainiacs, the prevailing opinion has been the nose is the most common trigger of memories.  But what do they know?  Brainiac that out all you want; this is all about memories being a…

Those who served in the military may look at this list differently than those who didn’t, but for purposes of this discussion, it’s the textbook definition of a “distinction without a difference.” For example, if you ever stood on the yellow footprints of the United States Marine Corps, you know the difference between a “drill sergeant” and a “drill instructor.” Here, the terms matter less; what…

Editor’s Note:  The Unknown Blogger has made several appearances here at Dubsism, and this probably won’t be the last.   For purposes of full disclosure, T.U.B. only pops up on this site from time to time as he left the world of professional sports journalism a few years back vowing never to return, but occasionally he can’t help but having a rant here.  This is a six-part installment of “The…

At one time I used this approach for Dubsism’s Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame campaign. The case of Bartolo Colon’s enshrinement offers the same “perfect storm;” it feels like time for a resurrection. After falling off the ballot in his first season (2024), there’s clearly a need for “divine intervention” concerning Colon’s candidacy for Cooperstown. Let’s be honest…the argument can be had…

Editor’s Note:  The Unknown Blogger has made several appearances here at Dubsism, and this probably won’t be the last.   For purposes of full disclosure, T.U.B. only pops up on this site from time to time as he left the world of professional sports journalism a few years back vowing never to return, but occasionally he can’t help but having a rant here.  It is no secret I’m a life-long New York…

If you read the piece from last week when Stanford captured the belt, I made the fairly obvious observation the Dubsism College Football Heavyweight belt seemed destined to be leaving Palo Alto in the belly of Notre Dame’s charter flight back to South Bend. Well, that’s exactly what happened last night. 13th Championship 1626 : 2025 29-Nov : Notre Dame 49 , Stanford 20 As I also mentioned, it…

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

Today’s Movie: The Buddy Holly Story Year of Release: 1978 Stars: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith Director: Steve Rash This movie is not on my list of essential films. NOTE: This installment of Sports Analaogies Hidden in Classic Movies is not being done as just part of a blog-a-thon.  Instead, this is a monthly event hosted by MovieRob called Genre Grandeur.  The way it works…