Jameson's Sport Writing Portfolio

  Manchester United are going into another season without winning a trophy. They have failed miserably to even get a little bit of silverware in competitions they usually dominate. The FA Cup and EFL Cup semi-final losses will sting a lot because those were very winnable contests, and they choked them away. They've done it again in the Europa League semi-finals, falling to a strong Sevilla team that exposed the glaring gaps in quality in the squad. I am looking directly at you, Victor Lindelof and Harry Maguire. For once, the defeat was not David De Gea's fault. It's becoming even more clear United are not at the level they want to be. They are performing at 75%. They are getting the contributions from Bruno Fernandes, their new golden boy, but they have to find ways to score outside of the penalty area. You can't rely on taking penalties to take you over the line. Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford at least tried to score. This loss to Sevilla was the wake-up call the...

The month of August has given us a lot of things: absurdly hot weather, a potential federal ban of Tik Tok, more coronavirus cases, and of course, the NHL playoffs. Despite it being a weird format with a play-in group stage and a round-robin for reseeding the teams that already clinched before the pause of play in March. Yes, August is the hockey month. If you've seen how the qualifiers are going, you'd notice a weird trend: none of the top teams are making it into the next round. So far we have upsets of the Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, and the New York Rangers. Edmonton and Pittsburgh's elimination raises eyebrows because they have the two best players in the world with Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby. Nobody really cares about the Panthers because nobody cared about them during the regular season, but they at least tasted more playoff experience. All eyes were on the New York Rangers, a team on the cusp of emerging as a dark horse candidate fo...