Tripple Overtime: An apology to Kobe Bryant from a journalist (one that did...
We all know those journalist types, with all of their pushy questions and all of their twisting words and their Twitter accounts with all of their borderline funny comments. They’re really just the...
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Tripple Overtime: Can we get the Indians a pool, please?
It really is a wonder that the Indian River High School swim team is winning South titles year in and year out, considering that, really, they don’t even have a pool, and that, really, being a school...
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Tripple Overtime: A politcally correct Christmas carol (and other Christmas...
Even with all the lights and the Bill Murray Netflix specials and Bethany’s new “Tree of Warmth,” I’ve been Ebenezer Scrooge’ing pretty hard so far this Christmas season. Not really so much to the...
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Tripple Overtime: 2015 Year in Review: Bring on the Monkeys
Coastal Point • Shaun M. Lambert: Indian River fans celebrate IR soccer’s state championship win in style with baby powder and hugs for all. IR won the game against Caravel 1-0.It’s almost as hard to...
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Tripple Overtime: More monkey business: A look at local sports in 2016
If you’re reading this column, it’s probably too late. Also, you might want to get a CAT scan.I’m, of course, talking about New Year’s resolutions. The ones we make. The ones we say we’ll make. And the...
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Tripple Overtime: Did you know that January is National Ray Lewis Prevention...
OK, so technically January is actually “National Stalking Awareness Month,” but I refuse to acknowledge it2. It turns out that there is no nationally recognized month for Ray Lewis awareness prevention...
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Tripple Overtime: Kickers are people too, just ask Justin Tucker or Andrew White
With time winding down and everything on the line, more often than not the game doesn’t come down to the star quarterback or the 1,000-yard rusher or even that gargantuan nose tackle that sometimes...
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Tripple Overtime: The mystery of the green-and-gold flannel pajama pants: A...
It was just before Christmas, and I remember it exactly, because it was very strange. I had just completed the week’s “Tripple Overtime,” expressing my recently renewed holiday spirit (even though it...
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Tripple Overtime: You don’t hafta get all Jack Torrance about waiting for...
If you’re like me, you spent this past weekend stuck snowed in watching “The Shining” in Baltimore, worried about who was gonna snap first should the beer run out before the roads got plowed.But even...
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Tripple Overtime: If beaver trapping is a sport (and/or cool), then Leonardo...
If you’re being rational, then you can agree that I am just as good an actor as Leonardo DiCaprio. Not only because we’re both renowned for our boyish good looks, and certainly not only because we both...
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Tripple Overtime: U.S. presidents who you didn’t even know were into sports...
There’s a lot we know about the past presidents of the United States (of America). Abraham Lincoln could never tell a lie. George Washington had wooden teeth and, from far away, he kind of looked like...
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Tripple Overtime Takeover: A Patriots fan strikes back
[Disclaimer: The following “Tripple Overtime Takeover” was written by Indian River High School soccer coach Steve Kilby, in response the continued ridicule of his beloved Patriots’ Tom Brady and Bill...
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Tripple Overtime: The best black athletes to ever play ‘white sports’
After last week’s “Tripple Overtime Takeover,” where Coach Kilby laid into me like a comedian into Justin Bieber during a Comedy Central roast, I vowed to never again slander his beloved New England...
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Tripple Overtime: Better great than never: John Elway and Leonard DiCaprio...
He missed out on one for “Gilbert Grape” in 1994, and it’s been eating at him ever since. But last Sunday night, some 22 years later, and at the revenant-ripe age of 41, Leonardo DiCaprio has finally...
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Tripple Overtime: Wintertime Rewind
While most non-cave-dwellers have already sprung forward, this week in “Tripple OT” we’re wintertime rewinding instead — which is definitely not because we forgot about the whole setting the clocks...
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Tripple Overtime: Is lowering the rim sexist or? Ask Elena Delle Donne
You play ball like a girl.Aside from “You know, if my dog was as ugly as you, I’d shave his butt and tell him to walk backwards,” and “You’re killing me Smalls!,” it’s probably the most memorable line...
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Triple Overtime: If missing out on sports moments and not knowing acronyms...
All the cool kids have been saying it for a while, which is why it’s so surprising that I’m just learning about it now.If you’re like me, you don’t really keep up with slang and acronyms and LOL this...
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Tripple Overtime: If the Mighty Ducks can beat Murphy’s Law, then the Indians...
Everything was going pretty good last Friday.For once, there was only one home game to cover that night. For once, the sun was starting to show again. And for once, Point photographer Chris Clark was...
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Tripple Overtime: If the ‘Running Man Challenge’ is cool, then Coach Ayers is...
I didn’t know what I was getting myself into last Tuesday. Literally. In fact, even while I was getting myself into it, someone said: “Hey Tripp, what did you get yourself into?” And I said: “I don’t...
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Tripple Overtime: I don’t want to blame it all on El Niño, but it certainly...
“I haven’t seen the sun in so long that I can hardly remember what it looks like anymore…” would be a grossly exaggerated statement and, also completely inaccurate, if I were to make it. But, even so,...
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