By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Nov 19, 2015 at 10:58 AM

Olivia Munn played fast-talking financial reporter Sloan Sabbith on the HBO show "The Newsroom" for three seasons and, in the process, apparently really honed her journalism chops.

Munn, the girlfriend of Aaron Rodgers and unofficial First Lady of Packers football, has taken some heat on social media – and no doubt in sports bars and at office water coolers throughout Wisconsin – because of Rodgers’ poor play during Green Bay’s current three-game losing streak.

On Thursday morning, she struck back at an ESPN listicle of "Five reasons why Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is struggling" – and specifically the Green Bay-based beat reporter who wrote it – for including her as part of the blame.

The fifth reason listed was "Possible off-field issues?" and references the off-record opinion of an unnamed agent who wonders "if something is going on in his personal life" even though "there’s no indication Rodgers’ relationship status has changed." Hazardously, the listicle ends with the line, "Sometimes it's easy to forget that professional athletes have lives away from the field, and you never know what could be going on in their personal lives."

Sabbith – sorry, Munn – clearly took issue with the prying speculation, blasting the writer, Rob Demovsky, on Twitter.

She also took aim at the fourth estate, generally, after another person on Twitter advised her to just ignore the trolls.

This is another example of how much crazier Packer Nation gets when the team, and especially the star quarterback, is struggling. In December 2013, when he missed seven games with a broken collarbone and Green Bay would finish just 8-7-1, Rodgers faced scrutinizing questions – and felt the need to address them – about his sexual orientation.

For what it’s worth, even though Rodgers’ performances over the past few weeks have fallen short of his usual peerless, prodigious standards, it’s not like he’s suddenly become Mark Sanchez. In his last three games, Rodgers has completed 56.5 percent of his passes for 779 yards with six touchdowns and one interception.

But anyway, even if her boyfriend is no longer playing like it, Olivia Munn is still the best. 

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.