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Tripple Overtime: The ‘Not Top Five’: The best worst sports blunders of fall...
While it may be a little early for our “Tribe Top Five” and all the best sports moments from fall 2016, with the Indian River High School soccer team still keeping IR fall sports alive and playing for...
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Tripple Overtime: The Tribe Top Ten
What… a… season.While the 2016 fall sports calendar may not have shaken out as planned for a few teams at Indian River High School, this one has certainly been one for the record books for the Tribe....
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Tripple Overtime: ‘Banquet Crashers’: I got a new shirt last week
What do you like better, Christmas or wedding season? The correct answer would be: banquet season.There’s nothing like a good misquoted Vince Vaughnism [sic] to send us into the most wonderful time of...
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Tripple OT: Is Jeff Fisher the Donald Trump of the NFL? One local sports...
Jeff Fisher made the move from a city sort of near the “Big Easy” to a city sometimes referred to as the “Big Orange” with only one thing on the agenda: make the Los Angeles Rams great again. An...
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Tripple Overtime: Year in Review: 2016 sports in 2,016 words or less
As the old saying goes, “You’ve gotta spend monkeys to make monkeys.” Well, coming up on day 365 of “the Year of the Monkey” in the Chinese zodiac, I, for one, am beyond spent when it comes to the...
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Tripple Overtime: Sussex County Sports Crystal Ball: What to expect when...
In the sort-of-famous words of the Seattle-based 1990’s alt-rock/grunge band and obvious Kurt Cobain wannabes “Alice In Chains”: “Yeah, here comes the rooster, yeah.” Riveting stuff, sure. Compelling...
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Tripple Overtime: Teams we’d like to see in Ice Cube’s new 3-on-3 basketball...
You know the guy in all those “Friday” movies? And those “Next Friday” movies? And also those “The Next Friday after the Friday after the last Next Friday following the following Next Friday” movies?...
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Tripple Overtime: Cubs visiting White House for Obama’s last week
I remember the last week of school: Getting to use your “senior privileges” to go off-campus for lunch instead of having to stomach whatever Miss Debbie was serving up in the cafeteria that day....
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Tripple Overtime: IR's Marcozzi, Central's Hudson highlight sports greatest...
It’s Schrödinger’s cat. Nobody going to a restaurant because it’s too crowded. Pretty much every major plot point in the 1985 American science-fiction adventure-comedy “Back to the Future.” It’s a...
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Tripple Overtime: No contest for old men? TB12 and the best oldest...
There’s no question that Tom Brady is one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time. First-ballot Hall of Fame? You bet. Heading into his seventh career Super Bowl appearance, Brady even has the...
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Tripple OT: The rigging of the ‘greatest quarterback of all time’...
Disclaimer: The following transcript has been derived from a secret-impromptu-Ocean’s 11-conspiracy-type meeting called by four-time respective Super Bowl champions Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw that...
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Tripple Overtime: An apology that Tom Brady will never get, for things he...
I guess I don’t really have to offer an apology to Tom Brady. That’s not to say he doesn’t deserve one. I just don’t think he needs it. The guy just won his fifth Super Bowl after orchestrating the...
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Tripple Overtime — Indians, Golden Knights unified by Unified (The definitive...
For basketball fans, or even for fans of just, like, general humanity, it was very exciting. It was very, very exciting. To put it in perspective, it was the only time I’ve ever seen Point...
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Tripple Overtime: Voting ‘yes’ on IRSD referendum kind of important
Calling all tennis players. Calling all golfers ready for shotgun starts. Calling all shuffle-board players, 5K runners, jazzercise jazzers, yoga’ed-out yogis, grayed-out barrel-riders, cast-out...
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Tripple Overtime: The Tribe Top Five (Winter sports 2017 edition)
With the Indian River High School boys’ basketball team set to make their first state tournament appearance since 2014, winter sports certainly aren’t over yet. But headed toward the finish line of one...
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How Emilio Estevez may have inspired female hockey players
Emilio Estevez. You either love him, hate him, are completely indifferent to him, are somewhat indifferent to him, have another unspecified opinion of varying nature about him, or have no idea who he...
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Tripple Overtime: ‘The Return of Captain Blood’ and other R. Chris Clark-less...
It’s a phrase I never imagined I’d be able to use with a straight face: “Man — I could really use the help of R. Chris Clark right about now.” As you may know, the whereabouts of the formerly famous...
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Tripple Overtime: Kyrie and Shaq think the earth is flat, and so can you...
I’m not going to stand here and present some egghead scientific argument based on fact. I’m just a regular dude. I like to watch football, quote Chevy Chase movies and crank the radio when Motley Crüe...
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Tripple Overtime: ‘Umbrellalypse Now’ (Sherry Brannon sells hotdogs, and also...
The following is based on a true story… loosely. [Editor’s note: When Tripp says “loosely,” he means “very loosely,” as in “not at all relating the reality of the actual situation.”] To tragically...
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Tripple Overtime: In hindsight, Pepsi should have probably used Ricky Bobby...
It’s a very Ripley’s type of a thing because, believe it or not, Pepsi Co. seems to think that only the exact thing wrong with the world can save the world, from all the things that are exactly wrong...
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