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Jags get revenge for last year’s AFC Championship Game

By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu Each week, sports writer Dustin Flectcher will recap the Jacksonville Jaguars game from the weekend. Here are three takeaways from this week’s matchup with the New England Patriots, which the Jaguars won 31-20: Yeldon is a more than competent backup;…


Jaguars look to make amends for last year’s playoff loss

By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu This Sunday, a clash of two titans will occur in Jacksonville. Emotions will be on high as the Patriots visit the Jacksonville Jaguars in what should be a heated rematch of the AFC Championship game last January. One major factor…


Three things we learned in the Jags season opener

By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu Leonard Fournette is the real deal; Yeldon fills in well Leonard Fournette came into the pre-season in great shape and dropped nearly 20 pounds from last season. This showed in a solid season debut. After putting together a solid rookie season in which he totaled 1,040 yards rushing in just 13…


Nationwide prison strike makes final stop in North Florida

By Jared Olson, photos by Adriana Cabezas | gargoyle@flagler.edu Just past 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, protesters gathered in the sweltering late summer heat before the Hamilton Correctional Institute Annex—a remote prison complex in the pine woods near Jasper, Florida, seven-and-a-half miles south of…


Jaguars seek to find sources of receiving yards

By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu This season, the Jaguars will be earmarked as a leading contender to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl this year behind their “Sacksonville” front seven and their ground and pound rushing attack with Leonard Fournette and an improved offensive…


The displaced campesinos of Nicolas Ruiz

By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…


Ghosts of Acteal

By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…


‘Left behind’: West Augustine often overlooked, not overbooked

By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Less than a mile from downtown St. Augustine, where thousands of visitors stroll around daily, snapping photos, and riding in horse-drawn carriages is a neighborhood that’s seemingly worlds away. In West Augustine, a predominantly African American neighborhood, a Family Dollar…



Surviving near fatal anxiety: A personal essay

By Nora Heyser | gargoyle@flagler.edu When people pass by the scene of a car accident, there are a few moments of time in which you are suspended, by both empathy and fear, visual elements taking over the senses. Flashing lights, heavy traffic. Perhaps it’s raining,…