WBUR Staff

Doug Tribou

Reporter / Producer
Doug Tribou

Doug Tribou joined the staff of Only A Game as a producer and reporter in 2008. He first came to WBUR as a news anchor in 2006.

Doug grew up in Reading, Massachusetts and Fair Lawn, New Jersey. He began his professional radio career as a producer at WRKO in Boston before working as a news anchor and reporter at WHCU in Ithaca, New York.

In 1999 Doug became the program and news director for three stations in Portland, Maine, including Newsradio 560 WGAN and 970 WZAN. During his six years there, WGAN’s news coverage earned several awards from the Maine Association of Broadcasters and the Associated Press. Doug was also honored individually for his reporting on breaking news and for his writing and direction of multiple on-air marketing campaigns for WGAN and WZAN. Saga Communications named him its national program director of the year in 2001.

While in Portland, Doug taught radio news writing at the University of Southern Maine. He returned to Boston to become the program director for the city’s first full-time ESPN Radio station. Doug has also worked as a radio programming and branding consultant.

In addition to his stories and guest hosting appearances on Only A Game, Doug’s reporting has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and American Public Media’s Marketplace.

Doug is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He lives with his wife, their two daughters, and their sizeable dog, Ox, in the Boston area.

Recent stories

Tebow Mania: Portrait Of A Media Circus

June 15, 2013
Tim Tebow takes questions after his first day of mini-camp with the New England Patriots. Only A Game's Doug Tribou had an obstructed view of the proceedings.

Tim Tebow might be the best-known back-up quarterback in NFL history. The New York Jets cut him in April, but this week Tebow signed with New England. Only A Game’s Doug Tribou was on hand for his first Patriots practice and presents this portrait of a media circus.

Bruins To Face Penguins In NHL Eastern Conference Finals

June 01, 2013
Boston Bruins Patrice Bergeron (l) and Shawn Thornton at practice Friday in Wilmington, Mass. After a week off, the Bruins are set to face Pittsburgh in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals.

BOSTON — The winner of the best-of-seven series will advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. Here’s a preview of Game One.

NHL’s Penguins, Bruins Linked By History … And Jagr

June 01, 2013
In this photo, Bruins right wing Jaromir Jagr skates alone. But, as Boston faces his former team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr has a championship team behind him. (Matt Slocum/AP)

In the NHL’s Eastern Conference Finals, Pittsburgh is paired with Boston. As Only A Game’s Doug Tribou reports, the teams have some history…but a lot of it happened in another era. Just ask Jaromir Jagr.

MLS To Add Second New York Team

May 21, 2013
New York Yankees president Randy Levine, left, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, center, and Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano pose for a photo at the MLS headquarter in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The New York Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

New York has never been much of a one-team town. And soccer fans in the Big Apple will soon have two choices when it comes to MLS. The league announced Tuesday that an expansion team is coming to New York for the 2015 season.

Budgets And Box Scores: Funding Sports In Boston Public Schools

May 18, 2013
Players dribble during a basketball skills clinic sponsored by the Boston Scholar Athletes in November. (Karen Given/WBUR)

Over the past decade, while Boston’s pro sports teams were hoisting Lombardi and O’Brien, ending Babe Ruth’s curse, and drinking from Lord Stanley’s Cup, Boston’s public school soccer teams were practicing without a goal. OAG’s Karen Given and Doug Tribou examine the unusual public-private partnerships that are turning things around.

Boston School Sports ‘Turning The Tide,’ Superintendent Says

May 17, 2013

BOSTON — We close our special series on Boston school sports with undiscussed questions and a look at the way forward.

Grades-To-Play Motivation Propels Some Boston Student-Athletes

May 16, 2013
The Play Ball! middle school football championship was a big moment for Narayan Jones, who says he loves football and "wouldn’t want to mess it up by not getting good grades in all my classes." (Doug Tribou/WBUR)

BOSTON — In sports there are scores and records. In school there are tests and grades. And for Boston students participating in the school district’s privately funded sports programs, all of those are important.

Charities Try To Keep Boston Student-Athletes In The Academic ‘Zone’ Too

May 15, 2013
Boston Scholar Athletes, which funds athletics programs for Boston Public Schools high school students, also sponsors learning centers. Here, zone facilitator Taleen Taylor, left, works with Burke High School senior Yissa Guerrero. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

BOSTON — Play Ball! and Boston Scholar Athletes fund school athletic programs and work to make sure students are meeting GPA requirements to participate. But some say the city’s requirements should be more challenging.

The 2 Private Organizations That Have Changed Boston's Public School Sports

May 14, 2013
Uniforms are just one of the things Play Ball! provides for middle school sports it runs. The group also hires coaches and refs and coordinates bus schedules. (Doug Tribou/WBUR)

The Play Ball! Foundation and the Boston Scholar Athlete Program have brought funding to the city’s athletics programs, but they didn’t just cut checks and walk away.

How Boston Public School Sports Have Improved In 4 Years

May 13, 2013
Competitive double dutch is now available to many public middle school students in Boston thanks to funding and administration from The Play Ball! Foundation. (Billy Owens/Play Ball!)

After a scathing report on the state of sports in Boston Public Schools, two community leaders stepped up to pitch in. In Part 1 of a weeklong series, we track the school system’s progress and ask: Is the outside help enough?