Scottie Scheffler was pumped after securing the first PGA Championship of his career.
Scheffler threw down his hat onto the green at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, as he celebrated winning the major tournament with an 11-under par. He went over to his family and hugged his wife, son and parents as they congratulated him.
The adrenaline must have carried over to the Wanamaker Trophy celebration. Scheffler lifted the piece of hardware a little too awkwardly, and the lid of the trophy fell from the top and hit the ground.
He laughed it off, as did the rest of the fans who watched the ceremony occur.
Collin Morikawa had the same blunder when he won the PGA Championship in 2020.
"They told me it’s heavy. They didn’t tell me the lid comes off," the golfer said Wednesday before the tournament began, via Golf.com. "But it is way heavier than you expect. And then they tell you to lift it over your head."
Scheffler shot a final-round 71 to secure the third major victory of his career.
He had a rough first few holes and allowed Jon Rahm to get into contention. However, he locked in while Rahm fell off the pace on the back nine.
"This back nine will be one that I remember for a long time," Scheffler said. "It was a grind out there. I think at one point on the front I maybe had a four- or five-shot lead, and making the turn, I think I was tied for the lead.
"So to step up when I needed to the most, I’ll remember that for a while."
Two-time defending Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden and Team Penske teammate Will Power will have to start from the final two spots on the grid Sunday after their teams were penalized for violating the rules during qualifying weekend.
ESPN star Stephen A. Smith weighed in on Monday about why Catilin Clark’s hard foul on Angel Reese became a major story of the sports weekend.
Clark’s foul under the basket came after Reese pushed off of an Indiana Fever player to secure an offensive rebound. Clark fouled the Chicago Sky forward in order to prevent an easy two points. Reese let Clark have an earful over the foul.
Clark’s personal foul was upgraded to a flagrant foul.
The two WNBA stars downplayed the foul in their postgame press conferences, but it still became a hot topic of debate because of the history the two young athletes have.
"First Take" host Molly Qerim asked bluntly whether the story of Clark and Reese becoming "trending news" was because it was women being physical with each other or was it because it involved a Black and a White player.
"It’s not about Black and White – it’s about that White player and that Black player," Smith said of Clark and Reese. "Why? Because of the history they had before they came to the WNBA. If Angel Reese was never in Caitlin Clark’s face taunting her the way that she did, mimicking what Caitlin Clark was doing to numerous opponents in route to the Final Four and then LSU and Angel Reese busted their you know what at that particular moment in time and Angel Reese was in her face chirping at her the way that she did, it would have never gotten to this point.
"I have never deemed that to be a bad thing. I love that kind of confrontation. I love that kind of heat. But there are White folks in America had a problem with Angel Reese coming at ‘The Chosen One,’ Caitlin Clark, that way. And because of that, they’ve acted with a level of vitriol. How do we know that? Because Angel Reese came back to college following year and one of the things that reduced her to tears was the vitriol that she was receiving from around the country because were hating on her because of her elevated popularity and the fact that she had gone at Caitlin Clark that way.
"Now, we come to the WNBA. No fault of Caitlin’s at all. But in the end, because of her greatness and because people were resistant to accepting the way I have articulated on many occasions, you have people using that as an excuse to throw vitriol at other people. In the end, here’s what I say, that’s what’s contributed to Angel Reese becoming a household name, along with the fact that she’s a rebounding demon … but that’s elevated her level of popularity."
Smith pointed to the rivalry Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson had in the NBA. It started at the college level and blossomed into the NBA.
He drew a comparative racial line between the NBA greats and young WNBA stars.
"What I would say all of y’all is this … no matter how great Michael Jordan was obviously, it started with Bird vs. Magic. Yeah, you can talk about Showtime vs. Boston, but that White superstar losing in that national championship game to that dude called Magic at Michigan State when (Bird) was at Indiana State and him coming into the NBA," he said. "They constantly made the Finals, and they owned most of the 80s in terms of the two teams, respectively. The bottom line is, it contributed to elevate the popularity.
"So, Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, embrace this. It’s OK, because all y’all doing is competing."
Indiana won the first of five games against Chicago. Clark had a triple-double and Reese had a double-double.
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Pro wrestlers Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy won the "WWE Legends and Future Greats" (LFG) competition on Sunday night to earn WWE NXT contracts.
Steele got her spot over Zena Sterling, and Troy earned his over Shiloh Hill to move up to the next level of competition. Both competitors will join the NXT brand and become the next duo to make an impact on the developmental brand.
"I’m super excited," Steele told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "I’m more patient. I just know in due time, everything is going to take place and when it rains it pours. So, I am excited to just see what the future holds and how the WWE Universe is gonna take my energy and all that I have to offer."
Troy expressed that he was more anxious to get into the ring and mix it up.
"I’m just more ready to see how the story unfolds. To me, it’s like expecting a movie to come out," he explained. "I’m just waiting to play my role in that film and see myself on the screen. But the funnest part for me has just been the work that we’ve been putting in since winning. Being more behind the scenes again, and I think it was just fun and go back to a feeling of trying to make it out of the bottom again.
"Because, you know, after the winning the show, I was on this big high. I felt like, ‘Wow, everything’s about to start changing rapidly. But everything just slowed down for a couple of months. I was just like, this is another test, this is another trial that I have to get through. The moment I come out it’s like a new debut and new beginning. The next chapter is very exciting to me."
Steele, whose real name is Tamyra Mensah-Stock, comes in with an audience a bit more familiar with her.
She is a world champion freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She also won two gold medals at the World Championships, one gold medal at the Pan American Games, three gold medals at the Pan American Championships and three gold medals at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yaryigin.
She put the NXT locker room on notice as her debut looms.
"My hard work is different than dang-near everybody. I am an Olympic gold medalist, not a lot of people can say that," she said. "That is a standard that not a lot of people can accomplish. It is an Olympic standard. To everyone that is going to be seeing me coming into the roster, they need to know, they need to understand that Tyra Mae Steele is going to be coming to this roster with an Olympic standard.
"And I am going to be flattening everyone who will be standing in my way. This is a standard that not a lot of people can live up to. And I see some people slacking – that just makes me hungry."
Steele said she keeps hearing that the NXT women’s division is "the hottest roster that there is" and vowed to make sure it stays that way.
"When I step into the building, when I step into the ring with anybody, they’re going to go, ‘Oh, my gosh, she wasn’t kidding about that Olympic standard,’" she said. "They’re gonna feel it, and they’re gonna love it and they’re gonna appreciate it. And if they don’t appreciate it, they’re dang sure going to respect it."
Troy, whose real name is Antoine Frazer, joined WWE as a recruit nearly three years ago. He played college football at Northern Iowa, Kansas and Rhode Island.
He praised the talent on the men’s roster for when he first entered the company.
"When I came in, the locker room wasn’t that much different, but there was a noticeable amount of talent," he told Fox News Digital. "And when I looked up, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, like, where do I fit in?’ When Bron Breakker was here regularly, Carmelo Hayes, Ilja Dragunov, that locker room was tough. Even Grayson Waller, I mean … they were the ones leading the charge.
"They would out-perform each other. It was almost like they were competing to see who’s gonna have the best performance of the night. Every coconut (show type) I went to I saw at least five or six main-event matches that could have been promoted."
He added that he is bringing the "same mentality."
"I’m ready to compete," Troy said. "I’m ready to move. I’m ready to shuffle the deck of players myself. I’m not coming in to participate or just tribute. I’m coming in to contribute. I’m coming in to be a factor in this. They gotta handle whatever they gotta handle."
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