Edit, fact-check, verify. Do your research then check again. Got it. As writers, those are the exhortations we regularly hear from the ‘experts’. And of course, they are correct. So when a recognized national media outlet prints up tens of thousands of issues of the Saturday sports section with a glaring editorial error my 12-year old grandson could have picked out, I have to laugh and grimace at the same time. After my mental romp with cowboy Wes Stanton (changed his first name from Chet and selected a surname that wasn’t too cringingly double-entendre), this gaffe was just too much to resist. We’ve all made the occasional boo-boo. I can’t type ‘from’ without first inputting ‘form’. ‘The’ always comes out ‘teh’. Clumsy fingers. I…

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