One of my favorite things to do to pass my time is write blogs over the Dallas Cowboys.  While no one will ever mistake me for an actual journalist (I get my news second hand just like everyone else) I do have knack for finding news that other people have missed.

It's not complicated mind you, just go to Google and sign up for news updates from your favorite teams.  Easy news from multiple sources, not bad huh?  Jess taught me that.  I never take any of the news unless it comes from a major news site (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, NFL and never ESPN) I'll usually spare it the indignity of too much fact checking.  Until now. 

Meet Russell Goldman, a beat writer for ABC News online.  I have no pictures of him and can't find a bio either, but his work on NFL Hall of Famer Reveals Multiple Personality Disorder  should speak for its self.  Russell Goldman is a journalist who would rather right a nice sounding story with all of the "red flag" words and not worry so much if any of it is accurate.  In fact Herschel Walker isn't even in the NFL Hall of Fame.  He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, but not the NFL HOF.  In the excerpt below it gives even more incorrect information.

(excerpt)He went on to play, mostly as a running back, in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, retiring in 1989. In 1999, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Herschel Walker wasn't even traded to the Minnesota Vikings (in the famous trade) until 1989, the very same year Jerry Jones took over as the team owner and GM.  After he left the Cowboys he spent 11 games of the 89 Season on Minnesota and two more seasons after that, 3 Seasons on the Eagles, just one season on the Giants and rode his final two seasons out with the Cowboys finally retiring after the 1997 season. 

This maybe nitpicking, these all could very well be typos.  Maybe Russell meant to say Former NFL Player and College Football Hall of Famer Reveals Multiple Personality Disorder?  Or maybe Russell is one of Herschel Walker's personalities?  The problem, however, boils down to this:  If you get specific information wrong in your article you bring to question the validity of all the information in the column.  If nothing else he gave me something to rant about.  Russell has also had the misfortune of making me realize there are people out there who do actually know less about sports than Skip Bayless.