Labor Day. A day to celebrate all of the labor. Not just some of it, allllll of the labor. Enjoy the day by sleeping in, doing some yard work, and maybe even reading The Daily Stump. Top to bottom. We dare you (you’re gonna like it).

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Stump Story of the Day

Scottie Scheffler: Certified ATM💸 

The Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, the Masters, RBC Heritage, Memorial Tournament, Travelers Championship, Olympic Gold, the Tour Championship, and the FedEx Cup.

What is that list, you wonder? It would be every tournament won by Scottie Scheffler in 2024. His season earnings, including bonuses, was just about $62.3 million. The greatest year since Tiger Woods won eight tournaments in 2006.

Scottie went on a run between March 10th and April 21st that included 5 tournaments, he won four of them. The only one he didn’t win was the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Don’t worry though, he came in second.

His season was defined by resiliency on and off the golf course. He had the bizarre arrest in Louisville, he had a constant target on his back, he had the pressure of becoming a father for the first time, and he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. He just carried it.

Not only did he win, he dominated. At times you’d see a chink in his armor. He’d respond with a bullet on the green or sinking a putt from the other side of the green. The man was unflappable.

Even Rory had to bow down to the king, “We’ll look back on 2024 and it’s obviously one of the best individual years that a player has had for a long time”.

More: Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup title, $25M payday (ESPN)

Today’s Trivia🧠

⚾️ Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire are first and second on the list of most home runs in a single season, who holds the third-place spot?

• A. Aaron Judge

• B. Hank Aaron

• C. Sammy Sosa

• D. Babe Ruth

• E. Josh Hamilton

(answer at the bottom of the Stump!)

On This Day…

Two PGA Tournament Championships finished: In 1940, Byron Nelson defeated Sam Snead at Hershey CC to win his first PGA Championship.

In 1974, Jack Nicklaus won the inaugural PGA Players Championship by 2-stroked over JC Snead.

A good day for golf.

You HAVE to see this…

CATCH. OF. THE. YEAR.🤯 

Talking Points

🏀Angel Reese: Stat Stuffer

Angel Reese always seems to find her way into mainstream media one way or another, this time it’s because she’s breaking records. Much has been made of the rookie seasons of her and her former college and now WNBA rival Caitlin Clark, but it’s hard to deny their instant success.

Just days ago, Clark broke the rookie 3-point record in a season, and now Reese has taken that and raised her hand. Reese broke the WNBA single-season rebound record yesterday. She entered the game needing six rebounds to pass the record held by former LSU and WNBA star Sylvia Fowles. Reese responded by getting her 24th double-double.

Reese now has her eyes set on the WNBA double-double record, set by Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun last season. She is four back of the record.

More: Sky’s Angel Reese becomes WNBA’s single-season rebounding leader (ESPN)

🏈 Ricky Pearsall Released from Hospital

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was released from the hospital yesterday morning. Pearsall was shot in the chest late Saturday afternoon in an attempted robbery and spent the ensuing hours and night in the hospital.

After spending his early hours in the hospital listed as “serious but stable condition”, Pearsall was upgraded to “fair condition” and released from the hospital early yesterday morning.

The bullet went straight through his chest and exited the body, missing all of his major organs.

Pearsall was a first-round pick in this past year’s draft and played his college football at the University of Florida. His status for the season remains unknown, but surely football is not the first thing on all of our minds when it comes to his recovery.

More: 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall Released from Hospital After Being Shot (ESPN)

💵 QR Codes on Helmets: Short-Lived Fantasy

When news broke that Oklahoma State would wear stickers on their helmets that led to the Cowboys NIL Page, the sports world wasn’t sure how to react. OK State’s head ball coach Mike Gundy said that the move was revolutionary, but the NCAA didn’t agree.

Saturday morning the NCAA released an announcement that the QR codes would not be permitted per a previous interpretation that “…(does) not allow social media handles, hashtags etc. to be permitted on the uniform”.

OK State responded by removing the QR codes from the helmet, but they now will be placed in “larger and more prominent locations” across the stadium.

More: NCAA bands Oklahoma State football from using QR codes on helmets (CNN)

Quick Hitters

🏈Dog in the broadcast booth??

🏀NINE. THREES. ARIKE. OGUNBOWALE.

🎾Coco Gauff ELIMINATED from US Open repeat

⚽️Mbappe breaks through for Real Madrid!!

💯 Full Scoreboards: MLB, Soccer, PGA, NFL, WNBA, NCAAF

What’s On TV Today

*All times are ET*

⚽️ International Friendly: Fiji vs Solomon Islands (3:00 AM ET)

⚾️ White Sox @ Orioles (3:05 PM ET), Dodgers @ Diamondbacks (4:10 MP ET), Red Sox @ Mets (7:10 PM ET), Yankees @ Rangers (8:05 PM ET), full schedule

⛳️ Nothing on TV today but here are the Day 4 Highlights from yesterday’s TOUR Championship: HIGHLIGHTS

🏈 College Football - Game of the Day: Boston College @ (10) Florida State (7:30 PM ET on ESPN)

🎾 US Open (W): (5) Paolini vs Muchova (11:00 AM), (6) Pegula vs Shnaider (12:00 PM), (22) Beatriz Haddad Maia vs Wozniacki (2:30 PM), (1) Swiatek vs (16) Samsonova (7:00 PM)

🎾 US Open (M): (25) Draper vs Machac (12:30 PM), (5) Medvedev vs Borges (1:30 PM), (10) De Minaur vs Thompson (5:00 PM), (14) Paul vs (1) Sinner (8:30 PM)

Trivia Answer:

C. Sammy Sosa. In 1998, Slammin’ Sammy hit 66 home runs, good enough for third-most in a single season in MLB history. Bonds is first with 73, McGwire hit 70 in 1998. Sammy owns the 3rd, 5th, and 6th most home runs in a season.

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