Tribe Top Five: The best of IR spring sports in 2016 (pretty much)
Thanks to El Niño, even though it’s pretty much Memorial Day — which is pretty much the unofficial start to summer, more or less — it hasn’t felt like spring until pretty much right now.But despite all...
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Tripple Overtime: For the Indians, revenge is a dish best served…
Revenge is a dish best served… Well, that’s it, really. Revenge is a dish best served, regardless of what I can only assume would be its metaphorical temperature (hot, cold, etc. — never really...
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Pickle Overtime: So, uh, I guess I play pickleball now
I had been putting it off for, let’s say, like, exactly a year or so, give or take. Ever since last August — when that Type-1 “Z-fracture” of my shoulder’s left clavicle left it slumped, hanging in...
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Tripple Overtime: How Darren McFadden saved me a fortune on my wireless bill
Not to be confused with “Tripple Overtime Takeover,” in which Indian River High School head soccer coach Steve Kilby often enjoys questioning Tripp’s abilities as an actor while at the same time...
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Tripple Overtime: Is Brexit to blame for England’s Euro loss to Iceland?
It’s fairly hanging low fruit… or figs… or whatever it is that they eat over in England (not sure… basing all knowledge of the U.K. off Austin Powers), to say that London Bridge is falling down. Just...
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Tripple Overtime: Hollywood Jack and the lost pair of shades
The Beginning of the not-so-existential The End came when my friend The Mantis sent me an SMS text message last Thursday. At the time, I had been trying to catch a little R&R after a particularly...
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Tripple Overtime: Someone should tell Blake Lively about Sharkbanz®
After watching Blake Lively get just absolutely Amity-Island-style terrorized by a Gigantic White Shark (GWS) in the movie “The Shallows” for roughly 1 hour, 27 minutes, one of two things can be...
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Tripple Overtime: So, uh, I guess I play pickle ball now Pt. II
Before you read, make sure you check out Part 1 of the Pickleball saga:http://www.coastalpoint.com/content/pickle-overtime-so-uh-i-guess-i-play...The assignment was to take the court. There were four...
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Tripple Overtime: Guanyú xiao liánméng shìjiè xìliè sài de zuì hao de shìqíng...
This week’s “Tripple Overtime” column title translates loosely to “Only the one who does not fear the dragon’s breathe will walk the trail of fire,” or something else like that that you’re probably...
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Tripple Overtime: If surfing again after a broken collarbone is cool, then...
There are, as a general law of the universe, only a handful of chances that life allows us to look really unequivocally cool. Not just everyday-cool, where you’re, like, stopped at a red light or...
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Tripple Overtime: That time I sort of ate sushi with Michael Phelps
For as much time as he spends in the water, it seems somewhat strange that Michael Phelps does not like fish. I mean, take Aquaman, for example. I very much doubt that Jason Mamoa is 20,000 or so...
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Tripple Overtime: Ryan Lochte isn’t the only lying U.S. athlete
Throughout American history, the sports world and world in general have seen their fair share of lies and liars. In fact, the whole country’s start is kind of based on a lie, considering that we...
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Tripple Overtime: Fantasy ‘sports’ I’d rather do than fantasy football
I don’t really get it, how my friends don’t really get it, how I most definitely do not want to get in on their fantasy football draft. Despite all my not-so-subtly-advertised indifference on the...
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Tripple Overtime: Sammi Whelen’s cornrows not the weirdest sports superstition
To quote the famous and fictitious Michael Scott, “I’m not superstitious, but I am, a little stiticious.” I think the same can be said for a lot of famous and non-fictitious sports stars, including,...
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Triple Overtime: IR/Central soccer among best undefeated battles in sports...
There were a lot of shrugs and “I don’t know”s and “Do you only own, like, one shirt, or what’s the deal?”s in my own personal discussions about the Indian River High School and Sussex Central High...
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Tripple Overtime: Beyond the rivalry: The definitive Josh Timmons interview...
Call it what you (and, by “you,” I pretty much mean “I”) will.Call it a North/South showdown. The “Battle of the Beach.” The “Clash of the Kilbys.” Call it other pseudo-clever handles that I’ve thought...
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Tripple Overtime: Stranger things: I ain’t scared of no buzzard (I’m actually...
If you know one thing about me, it’s that I’m scared of birds. But also, after catching a few episodes of the show “Stranger Things” on Netflix, and since, apparently, I’m, like, 6, I’m also pretty...
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Tripple Overtime: The ‘Redskins Rule' and Peyton Manning or Maggie Ford for...
America: The land of the free. The home of the brave. The birthplace of the word “supersize” and adult-onset diabetes. Unlike Hillary’s outbox and Trump’s history of sexual misconduct, it’s no...
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Tripple Overtime: There’s a ‘Back to the Future’ Cubs’ conspiracy even though...
Theoretical physics. Rubik’s cubes. Where exactly “the Cloud” is. Whether Cobb’s totem stopped spinning or no at the end of the movie “Inception” featuring Jason Gordon-Levitz (“Snowden,” “Third Rock...
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Tripple Overtime: Can the NFL stop bogarting Instant Replay now because we...
As a journalist, you’re not allowed to have a rooting interest, specific team-wise, when you’re covering games or writing features or enduring presidential elections, or whatever else. It’s kind of...
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