This Week's Sports Hero, Zero: Scottie Scheffler, Aaron Rodgers

by Julian Spivey

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There’s nobody in golf right now that can hold a candle to Scottie Scheffler, the current No.1 ranked golfer in the world, who won his second Green Jacket in three years over the past weekend at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.

​Scheffler was in contention the entire tournament at the Masters and entered the final round on Sunday, April 14 in a dogfight with a handful of other golfers, including Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Luvig Åberg. For the first nine holes of the final round, it still appeared to be anybody’s tournament to win before Scheffler’s competitors starting fallen one by one and fast, while he was playing at the usual top of his game.

By the end of the back nine, Scheffler had won the Masters by four strokes over Åberg.

Scheffler has played in nine tournaments thus far in the 2024 PGA Tour season and has won three events with a runner-up position, as well. He has finished in the top 10 in all but one event this year.

His nine career wins dating back to February 2022 have him on one of the hottest three-year streaks I’ve ever seen in 25 years of watching golf. 

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Zero

Aaron Rodgers, who supposedly plays quarterback for the New York Jets, would be on the first ballot of my sports zero Hall of Fame if such a thing existed. The veteran quarterback and future football hall of famer (if he doesn’t wind up being Curt Schilling’d by voters) is certainly the leader in the sports clubhouse when it comes to saying dumbass stuff. This week Rodgers sparked outrage when he claimed that the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980s was entirely manmade on the Look Into It podcast (a podcast I certainly won’t be looking into) and connected to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci. Because what horrible thing hasn’t Fauci created in the minds of the nation’s ignoramuses? What Rodgers said was so stupid I don’t want to give him or it the further press by quoting it, so if you must know the specifics I suggest Googling it.

​It’s amazing to me the amount of bullshit Rodgers is allowed to pedal without having any repercussions from his team or the NFL in general. Players have suffered far worse consequences for far less – *cough* Colin Kaepernick *cough*.

I hope that when Rodgers’ playing days are over and that will be soon given his age the press won’t worry as much about his idiotic conspiracy theories and hobbies but that probably won’t be the case.
Can you believe this guy was once recently a considered host for “Jeopardy”?