Brian Oliu

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Final Beliefs

Final Beliefs

Where do I even begin? Does it start when I first moved to Tuscaloosa, wide-eyed and thick with anxiety over my new home—a ...

Away Game

Away Game

In June of this year, after 18 long years of living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I left Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was time to go. In a lot of se...

Goodbye, Tuscaloosa

Goodbye, Tuscaloosa

Goodbye bug line. Goodbye Hackberry and Slash Pine. Goodbye do what now , Preciate it , Preciatecha and all the lexicon that foun...

A College Football Hallmark Christmas Movie: A Christmas Transfer Portal

A College Football Hallmark Christmas Movie: A Christmas Transfer Portal

To listen to a performance of this, tune in on Spotify. “O Come All Ye Faithful,” blares from a red and green-clad ma...

99 Days Until Kickoff/99 Luftballons/99 Things I Am Looking Forward To This Alabama Football Season

99 Days Until Kickoff/99 Luftballons/99 Things I Am Looking Forward To This Alabama Football Season

99 First off all, it’s Alabama. 98 That first Friday before the first home game where all of the tiny tents are bei...

Troll Tide

Troll Tide

The 2021 Alabama Football team is trolling us. This, of course, relies upon your definition of “trolling”&mda...

A Thin Line Between Heaven and Here

A Thin Line Between Heaven and Here

-1- Cecil Hurt, long time beat reporter of the Tuscaloosa News passed away on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at the age of 62...

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: Joyless

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: Joyless

Joy I have been thinking a lot about Ross Gay lately. Gay’s work is synonymous with discovering joy—something...

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: TIS THE SEASON

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: TIS THE SEASON

Tis the season

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: WE ARE BACK AND I MISS YOU

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: WE ARE BACK AND I MISS YOU

And by back I mean we went through some weird loophole where our backup QB has a questionable mustache & our linebackers have turned in...

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: I GUESS WE ARE DOING THE THING

OLIU'S OUTLOOK: I GUESS WE ARE DOING THE THING

Ahoy mateys! Welcome aboard the massive pirate ship that is COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2020 where it may or may not be sinking and the majority of pe...