uh, that's not a template, is it?

Check out the following excerpt from this ESPN.com article:

The lottery, which took place in Secaucus, N.J. had all the drama of a botched magic trick. But for the [lottery winner], luck was on Milwaukee's side, represented by general manager Larry Harris.

Heh, kinda cool to see such an obvious screw-up make it into their headline article. And here we thought they had writers slaving away at keyboards 24/7 to bring us all those up-to-the-minute articles...not.

Or maybe so, from the looks of a later paragraph. Or maybe they just get some scrub off the street to fill in a few details at the last minute?

Jeanie Buss, representing the Los Angeles Lakers, who missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1993-94 season, brought a Native American rock from boyfriend Phil Jackson for luck. The Lakers wound up with the 12th selection..

Okay, double punctuation and some overuse of commas. Annoying but it just shows the guy was in a hurry. I can live with that. But the ghost-author claims there that the Lakers ended up with the 12th pick out of 14, while the order given in the preceding paragraph shows the Lakers with the 10th pick. Okay, idiot, which is it? Don't these people even bother to at least glance over what they're putting up before sending it out for the world to read? Geez...if the hacks who write about supposedly important stuff are anything like these ESPN guys, no wonder they can't be expected to get their facts straight.

And people get degrees in journalism so they can put out such garbage? Gimme a break.

UPDATE: He/She/They have already fixed the brackets thing and the double period, but the Lakers are still said to be in two slots at once. Getting there...