Sunday, January 29, 2006

Highlights of sports journalism (latest in a series)

In Sunday's Celtics Notebook, Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald observes

[Gerald Green] appears to be benefiting too much from his stint with Fayetteville (Ark.) in the NBDL. He had a 30-point, 12-rebound double-double Friday night.


It takes some work to make at least one factual mistake per sentence but in this paragraph Mark pulls it off. According to the official box score of the game Green had 21 points and 5 rebounds, not quite a double-double. As no-one in the game had 30 points and 12 rebounds it's not clear where Mark got those numbers from. In addition, as handy dandy Ticketmaster directions available here point out, the Fayetteville Patriots play in the Crown Center of Cumberland County, North Carolina. Not Arkansas.

No comments: