Brian Out Loud Archive

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.

If I told you Erik Harris played seven seasons in the NFL, you’d probably ask me what major college he went to.


If I told you he attended NCAA Division II California University of Pennsylvania, you might say, “No way.”

At first, I wasn’t sure what to think of Teddy Bridgewater’s social media post that ultimately got him into hot water with Miami Northwestern.

It seems to be a tradition now for me to write about the comments made from people about a newspaper pay wall.


I get the frustration. People love free. And there seems to be this mindset that you shouldn’t have to pay for the news.

We have officially reached the point of the year where we are stuck between the continuation of summer and the start of high school sports season.


But it’s not as if the local sports world has completely hit a wall.

I realize we are at the point where, if there was an eighth day added to the week, college football would be played on it.


I just don’t understand why NCAA Division II has to jump on the ship. Is it too much to ask for D-II to avoid playing college football games on Friday nights?

It was hot and humid. One of those days where water breaks are mandatory instead of optional. But it didn’t matter.


Former Navarre Raider football players and the young athletes they were working with at a camp were having fun on a Saturday morning in early June.