Brian Out Loud
January 9, 2024
I can remember shooting baskets for hours in the humid summer months and even, at times, the brutally cold winter months on the basketball court in the driveway back home. You are talking to someone…
Brian Out Loud
January 2, 2024
Welcome to 2024. The ball dropped on New Year’s Eve in Times Square a few days ago.
Brian Out Loud
December 18, 2023
Dear Santa, the FHSAA could use a clue.
I know it’s a big ask. Perhaps a bigger ask than that time when I was 8 and I circled every toy in one of those old department store catalogs hoping for the b…
Brian Out Loud
December 12, 2023
It starts with Dear Argos, Dear Bulldogs, Dear Gators or Dear whatever other school nickname you want to fill in the blank with. And then in it goes into thanking teammates, thanking coaches, thankin…
Brian Out Loud
December 5, 2023
You killed my dream Texas A&M. Just when I thought I’d be the next head coach of the Aggies and looked forward to a future of one day being the guy who would get paid millions of dollars to do no…
Brian Out Loud
November 28, 2023
Next month will mark four years since the University of West Florida football team last won an NCAA Division II national championship. There was always an appreciation for that title run as it happen…
Brian Out Loud
November 20, 2023
I don’t think anyone needs to be told the NFL is a tough, often cruel business. And sometimes it’s a crazy business. In the span of not even 24 hours last week, Navarre alum Michael Carter went from…
Brian Out Loud
November 16, 2023
Give Navarre’s football team credit in 2023. A lot of it. The Raiders were in a tough spot early on in the season, dropping their first two games. Hope was fading fast, at least to those on the outsi…
Brian Out Loud
November 6, 2023
As a young boy, when you see a basketball coach throw a chair onto the court during a game while watching on television, it kind of turns out to be the thing that you remember the most about said coa…
Brian Out Loud
October 30, 2023
They wear black and white striped shirts. They throw flags and blow their whistles. And boy do they take a ton of heat. The life of an official for a sporting event, especially a high school sporting…