Are you guys really discussing news people as knowing what they're talking about? Cmon that's why they started hiring former players and coaches, because the typical idiots, oops I mean "reporters" couldn't get anything right anymore than than the weather guy.
The "sports" morons are no different than the rest. Get the story out quick, it doesn't matter if it's truthful or not, just be the first to report it. A very good quote from Denzel, when he lit into a pack of "reporters" was "If you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you're MISinformed". Today's news, and reporters are a pile of dung. And this is evident in sports reporters. Constantly talking out of their third point of contact and than get offended when they're called out and proven wrong. It is what it is.