Associate Producer, Only A Game
Doug joined the Only A Game staff in summer 2008 after spending two years as a news anchor for WBUR. Doug is a New York Yankees / Oakland Raiders / Boston Celtics fan, an endangered species rarely seen in the wild. He is also a proud alumnus of Syracuse University and coincidentally bleeds orange, a convenient side effect of an undiagnosed medical condition.
Doug was once the program director of Boston’s first ESPN Radio station. In 2001 he was named Saga Communications’ National Program Director of the Year for his work in the company’s Portland, Maine, group. While living there he mingled with Portland’s Sea Dogs, Pirates, and other nautical sporting types.
Doug and his wife live just outside of Boston. Her remarkable lack of interest in sports keeps their household at an acceptable level of normalcy.
BOSTON — Their wheels locked in stationary trainers and their “movements” tracked on video screens, cyclists traversed a “canyon of beer” during the recent Harpoon Indoor Time Trial in South Boston.
EPSOM, N.H. — One million foul shots by Veterans Day 2011. That is the goal of a New Hampshire basketball fan aiming to help wounded military veterans and the families of those killed while serving.
BOSTON — In an area of Boston where one normally sees a lot of red and a little bit of navy blue, there was a lot of black and gold Friday morning, as fans gathered around Fenway Park for the NHL Winter Classic.
BOSTON — Face masks were once considered the garb of cowards. But in 1959, Montreal’s Jacques Plante got fed up with hockey pucks in the face. His fiberglass face mask remains a staple for goaltenders 50 years later.
BOSTON — The NBA’s minor league is expanding. The NBA Development League, better known as the D-League, is adding two teams this fall and both are in New England. When Doug Tribou of Only A Game heard one of the teams was holding an open tryout, he decided to take a shot.
WASHINGTON — David Ortiz hit a key homer in the Red Sox victory over Oakland on Thursday, but the conversation afterward was about a report that he and former teammate Manny Ramirez appeared on a list of players who tested positive for steroids in 2003.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Accountability for troubled schools was the focus of a meeting with the state’s new education commissioner last night in Worcester. WBUR’S Doug Tribou reports.
