Brian Oliu

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 kid...

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 sen...

Goodbye bug line. Goodbye Hackberry and Slash Pine. Goodbye do what now , Preciate it , Preciatecha and all the lexicon that found its way i...

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

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

The 2021 Alabama Football team is trolling us. This, of course, relies upon your definition of “trolling”—I will a...

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

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

Tis the season

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

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 peo...