Jameson's Sport Writing Portfolio

The 2020 NFL Draft was a weird enough experience in itself, you know with all the inter-connected Zoom calls; watching team coaches, general managers and owners basically pick players from their living rooms with their kids watching their beloved parents, hard at work, carefully selecting which stud college football prospect fills a role desperately needed within the team roster. At times, watching the draft made me wonder whether the GMs were making the call or whether their kids were putting in their two cents. More often than not, the audience waited for Roger Gooddell to announce the pick after it had been a solid ten minutes before they even went to the commissioner's live feed. Yea, it was an interesting NFL Draft, to say the least, but what really made this draft a must-watch were the picks made by the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles in the first round and the second round, respectively. Instead of addressing serious...

Joe Thornton is one of the greatest natural hockey players to ever grace the ice. He was gifted with incredible vision and passing abilities, with the talent to set up goals from ridiculous angles. He is one of the biggest point producers in NHL history and one of a handful of players to win scoring titles for two different teams. With all his talent, size and skill, Thornton had a lustrious NHL career, but even with all of these accolades, he was never able to win hockey's most coveted prize: the Stanley Cup...why? Even before he was an NHL player, Thornton's legacy in hockey lore was cemented early on. In his junior hockey years, he was a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds on the Ontario Hockey League, a sort-of small market team for Canada's junior leagues. In his second season with the Hounds, Thornton posted 123 points. Only at 18 years old, the St. Thomas, Ontario native was a lock for the NHL. He put small-town Canada on the map not only being from a small...