Brian Out Loud Archive

With the start of a new year, perhaps it’s time for the FHSAA to try something new with weightlifting.


Nothing wrong with the sport overall, but the structure of the regions could use a makeover.

We are a week away from Christmas and are sitting at two weeks until 2025, and me, I’m here trying to wrap my mind around the fact that time has flown by like a sprinter.


Fall sports are history, winter sports still have a couple of months to go and spring sports teams have already started conditioning.

We are less than a week away from Christmas and under two weeks until 2025, and me, I’m here trying to wrap my mind around the fact that time has flown by like a sprinter.

There were enough fights in college football over Thanksgiving weekend to make a day at the hockey rink look tame.


All those flag plantings on the field riled up the losing teams, who might have won their games had they shown that much fight and emotion during the game.

What a year it has been for Navarre alum Emily (Madril) Sams.


From an Olympic gold medal winner to National Women’s Soccer League champion, Sams has had a year she will absolutely never forget.

I hope you all are taking time to enjoy Thanksgiving week and are taking a break from the madness of the daily grind.


I can tell you I am certainly doing that after months of bouncing around football fields, golf courses, gyms and more.

Flipping commitments is a common thing in collegiate athletics. An athlete might decide in July that North Carolina is the place for him to play.


And then a few months later, an athlete might say, ‘I’d rather take my talents to Auburn or Alabama.’

Soccer players on the fields at NYSA are likely dreaming big as they compete week in and week out.


What they aren’t doing is playing on a field of dreams as the fields at Navarre’s local soccer complex are from being in ideal condition.

Someone made a post about coaching on social media the other day. And it is so very true.


Summarizing it, the post stated that everyone knows more than you and wants your job on Friday nights, but they don’t want your job every other day and month of the year when games aren’t being played.

I’m not sure what has gotten into some of Florida’s school districts lately, but they have clearly gone too far in the wrong direction.


Volunteer forms to get clearance to be on the sideline for shooting photos might be the craziest of them all.