Apparently, Rams fans have Erica Donald to thank for getting No. 99 back on the field. Shortly after Aaron Donald’s stunning return to Los Angeles became official Sunday, his wife delivered perhaps the best explanation yet for how the…
Page A10From§Eachthe early evening edition — 30 August 2026
NFL releases DUI arrest video; PGA turns golfer's F-bomb into championship motivation the same week.
As it ran on the front
This reporter has covered professional golf since before the mulligan was legal, and let this reporter assure you: what transpired at the Tour Championship this week was not scandal, it was scripture. Scottie Scheffler, upon uttering an expletive picked up by a hot microphone during Sunday's final round of the 1998 Tour Championship, converted that very lapse into rocket fuel, closing with a back-nine surge that this reporter clocked at six strokes.
“It was 2025, not 1998, sugar, and Scheffler's closing surge was five strokes, not six — check the standings, they're right there.” — Trudy
…(cont) Meanwhile in professional football, the release of jail footage showing Indianapolis wide receiver Keenan Allen exiting custody following a drunk-driving arrest has been treated, in certain corners of the sports press, as a public service update on player accountability — this reporter would remind readers that in the National Football League of 1974, such footage simply did not exist, because television cameras were not stationed outside county jails, a simpler and this reporter would argue more dignified arrangement.
“Cameras outside county jails is a modern-day media thing, sure, but let's not get dewy-eyed for 1974 — that was also the year the league had zero minority head coaches, hon, so 'dignified' is doing a lot of work in that sentence.” — Trudy
And let this reporter not neglect the Rams, whose returning defensive stalwart Aaron Donald received, this week, what was characterized as a hysterical take from his wife Erica regarding the reunion — a charming domestic footnote, the kind of gals-will-be-gals color commentary this reporter has always found refreshing in an otherwise humorless sport.
“Erica Donald runs her own business and raises three kids while her husband plays football for a living, and calling her reaction 'gals will be gals' is the kind of line that ages like milk, sugar — she's allowed an opinion on her own household without a chaperone.” — Trudy
The larger point, and this reporter does have one, is that professional sports has developed two entirely separate scoring systems: one for the men who curse on camera and win, and one for the men whose arrest footage runs instead of their highlight reel. This reporter, for the record, has long believed the second system needed updating. It has not been updated. That's the ballgame.
“Same week a Colts player's DUI release tape runs on loop, a PGA pro's hot-mic curse gets replayed as a pump-up montage — one guy's arrest is content, the other guy's outburst is inspiration. Different sports, same rulebook: what gets called a mistake depends on who's holding the trophy.”
The receipts
Scottie Scheffler erased a three-shot deficit to chase down Viktor Hovland at East Lake, but a controversial bunker ruling added drama to the finish.
Keenan Allen was probably hoping for a different type of Sunday when he joined the Colts.
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.