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Sports have allowed the Churchill sisters to grow closer

By Grace Schwab Paige and Megan Churchill, two rising stars at Flagler College, have always been able to grow closer as siblings through sports.   “We grew up always playing games around the house, in just a competitive environment… That’s probably a big part of why…


The normality behind adaptive basketball

By Lauren Montano On a late Thursday night in Jacksonville, the Brook’s Rehabilitation center basketball court is abuzz with action. Players either in blue or white jerseys played a scrimmage against one another, yelling, laughing, high-fiving each other with every basket. It seems like a…




The Flagler football community

By Lexi Ray When you say football or soccer in the United States people instantly think about MLS, FIFA, and now Messi. However, for Toby McCallum, 21, football is a community and an escape from everything else in his life. Football is game like no…


Retiree devoted to serving local food-insecure population

By Chloe Smith Vickie Leese views her volunteering as something greater than just handing out food to the impoverished of St. Johns County. When working with Epic Cure to fight local food insecurity, Leese said the people she helps become something else entirely to her:…


Heartbreak and sport: Why do we keep coming back?

By Nicholas Leo  Winning 24-14 at halftime of the Super Bowl, I start another Eagles chant and down the rest of my beer. I’m surrounded by a sea of green at South-A-Philly in downtown St. Augustine, chest-bumping the owner and halfway through a cheesesteak. Two…


Eagles Flock South, Force Bucs to Walk Plank

By Nicholas Leo TAMPA, Fla — Four hours before Monday Night Football kicked off, Philadelphia Eagles fans stormed into steaming hot parking lots from across the country to do what they so often do: Make an opponents stadium look like South Broad Street. The flood…