Brian Out Loud Archive

I need to come up with a rule that says you can’t post in the comments section of our paper’s sports page social media posts unless you use your real name and profile.


My thought is, if you are going to make a comment, then own it.

September is suicide prevention month. In reality, every month should have a focus on mental health and the battles that come with it.

We have reached the midway point of the high-school football season.


And we have learned a few things along the way.

I’m not sure who needs to see this column in Santa Rosa County to make it happen, but I’d really love it if we could get a public pool at either end of the county some point before the end of time. Having a pool at both ends of the county would be even better.

We get too caught up at times with recruiting and the pressure of getting noticed.


I get it. Everyone wants to play at the next level. It’s the dream. And there’s nothing wrong with dreaming big.

Apparently, you can find some great coaching candidates in the comment section of a Facebook post.


I learned as much after Navarre’s football team was blanked by Choctaw in week two.

Florida has some interesting rules when it comes to high school football.


I learned last week that apparently high school football teams here are not allowed to play an opponent from another state in a Kickoff Classic.

It’s hard to believe we are starting up another high school sports season. I swear, each year it seems like summer goes by faster than the last. Time really does fly, I guess. It was an interesting 2024 fall season to say the least. We had playoff teams from the area in football and volleyball, […]

I had no idea until a couple of weeks ago that a Pop-A-Shot national championship tournament was actually a thing.

I spent hours playing that game at local arcades as a kid growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Most of the time my job here involves telling stories about athletic achievement and beyond, and taking photos that capture some of the best moments from a game.


But having this platform as a writer, and having a strong social media presence, sometimes my job responsibilities go beyond what shows up in the newspaper.