This piece of fiction is hilarious

The first thing wrong with this excerpt (from "Paul Ranger’s kick-stick shot in shootout is hilarious to everyone but Sabres goalie (Video)" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on September 22, 2013) is the word participated - it should be participate. The second thing wrong is Paul Ranger's last name going from Ranger (correct) to Rangers (incorrect). The third thing wrong is that Ranger's shot gets called a goal in the article's final sentence; Ranger didn't score on the play. Click the image to enlarge it.

Take this writer to (tennis) court

In the last post, professional men's tennis player Andy Murray had his first name misspelled in an article's first sentence. This time (in "Preview: Lisicki favourite ahead of 33,000-1 semi-finals" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 3, 2013) it's professional women's tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska who has her first name misspelled in an article's first sentence. Click the image to enlarge it.

I hear he's also a sing

I didn't know anyone could be a golf, let alone be an avid one. From "Free golf for Brad Marchand concussion? Vancouver course apologizes for Volchenkov offer" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on April 13, 2013. Click the image to enlarge it.

Playing fast and loose with the writing

This article ("Remarkable Colorado full court shot in girls hoops game goes in off a bounce" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on February 11, 2013) includes an embedded YouTube video after a short opening paragraph. It seems the writer - who thinks that Anna Olson "grabbed a loose ball" right before scoring the amazing basket - didn't watch the video because it very clearly shows Olson's teammate grabbing a defensive rebound and then passing the ball to Olson. Then,

the ball's bounce wasn't straight up, as there was obviously momentum towards the basket. And long-range needs a hyphen. And the writer says the basket was worth two points, while the YouTube video's description claims the basket was worth three points. Either way, there needs to be a period after that closing parenthesis. Click an image to enlarge it.

Proofread? Not bloody likely!

The first sentence in the summary of 2012's top moment (in "2012 Year in Review: NHL lockout No. 1 in CP's top moments in Canadian sport in 2012" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on December 18, 2012) includes a nonword. Forget proofreading - that's an error that a quick use of spell check would have caught. Click the image to enlarge it.

Yahooooooooooooo! June 2012

Woooo - it's time, it's time, it's time! Time to share in the humour and the tragedy that are the errors detected on the Yahoo! Canada homepage during June 2012. On June 1, either is should have been between man and of, or and should not have been present. Then,

on June 5 there was a piece of news that Yahoo! really wanted you to read. Then,

also on June 5, there was a nonword out in the open: targeted is the correct spelling. Then,

on June 9 there was a misspelling of Robert Pattinson's last name. If you think perhaps Yahoo! was referring to someone whose last name is Pattison,

here is another capture from the same day. This time his last name is correct, but I don't understand why with is capitalized. Then,

on June 14 you should have been your. Then,

on June 19 the error wasn't immediately obvious. The story intrigues me, though, so I clicked to the article,

so I clicked to the article ("Jerry Sandusky's defense bolstered by tape establishing police led an accuser's statement" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on June 19, 2012) where I first spotted this repeated word, before

reading this. The homepage claims it was a conversation between police and Victim No. 4, but the article claims the conversation was between police and Victim No. 4's attorney. Things that make you go hmmm. Later in the article,

this is something that was said to Victim No. 4 by his attorney. The your/you're error belongs wholly to the Yahoo! writer. Then,

back on the homepage, on June 21 laywers should have been lawyers. Then,

also on June 21, bulling should have been bullying. (The article's headline was exactly the same, but has since been corrected. However, the error lives on in the article's web address.) Then,

on June 22 the word of appeared three times in the above capture, but it should only have been twice -  the middle appearance is incorrect. Then,

on June 26 is should have been his. Also, that Seuss classic has an exclamation mark instead of a period. Then,

on June 28 shoe-in should have been shoo-in. Finally,

on June 30 recieves should have been receives. That's it from June 2012. Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahoo!'s writer's could benefit from a punctuation seminar

There shouldn't have been an apostrophe in teammates. From "Bruce Chen interview interrupted by teammate Humberto Quintero making ‘slanted eyes’ gesture" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on June 10, 2012.

That is one of the sentences of the entire article

Wow. No kidding, eh? Doughty managed to score one of the goals of the entire postseason? That's crazy. That's something that can only be said of every player who has scored this postseason. I think the writer meant to put a word before goals. Then he couldn't decide which word (prettiest or sloppiest or flirtiest or dopest?) and would come back to add a word in. But never did. From "Carter scores in OT, Kings win 2-1" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on June 2, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.

Have the proofreader's or editor's seen this?!

There shouldn't be an apostrophe in producers, and the apostrophe is misplaced in Dragons' Den. From "Ottawa Senators prospect Darren Kramer spreads word of peanut butter solution" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on March 28, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.

Out of your league

The Colorado Mammoth play in the National Lacrosse League. From "No-look lacrosse goal gives player early hat trick (video)" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on March 25, 2012. Also, after watching the video, I can tell you that it wasn't actually a no-look goal. Click the image to enlarge it.

Facts shmacts

Just like this recent post, the error here can be discovered by watching the video that's embedded in the article ("Video: Young fan catches foul ball, gives it away to older fan" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on August 10, 2011). As the article states, earlier in the game the older fan had obtained a foul ball and given it to the younger fan. Later, when the younger fan caught a foul ball of his own, he quickly handed the first foul ball back to the older fan. Even the headline is wrong. There were many comments on the article stating what actually happened, but no change to the article or the headline was made, and now - mysteriously - there is no comment section. Click the image to enlarge it.

Jeff Parent is not right

Anyone who gets paid to write about baseball should know the difference between the right-field line and the left-field line. It's clear from watching the video embedded in the article that the ball was hit down the left-field line. From "Awkward: Shane Victorino’s homer sails foul, no one tells him" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 18, 2011. Also,

someone in the comments section wrote that the manager's name is actually Mark Parent. I checked it out and the commenter is correct. Click an image to enlarge it.

Unseemly

Did this professional writer have their article hacked? Because made it seemed is bush league. From "Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee saves Brad Richards from Twitter hack" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 15, 2011. Bonus: that's the article's first sentence, and one week later it's still craptastic. Click the image to enlarge it.

It doesn't add up

This is the start of "Missed it by that much: Marathoner loses $27K by one second" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 4, 2011. Some have written in the article's comments that the guy earned the bonus because he did finish in 2:10. It doesn't state under 2:10, it states 2:10 and under - unless that's only the way the article's sentence is written, and the actual conditions of the bonus are more clear, which is entirely likely. But that's not why I'm here. I'm here because the bonus is clearly written as being $27,000. If Kamakaya had earned the bonus ("but he did!"), he would have made a total of $37,000, thereby more than tripling his payday and, in fact, nearly quadrupling it.

Writing for the birds

This is the start of the first sentence in "Rodgers knew that Aguilera goofed up National Anthem at Super Bowl" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on May 20, 2011. It appears that nobody at Yahoo! knows that Farrar goofed up the word crowd. Click the image to enlarge it.

Reading this is maddening

The word season should immediately follow regular, and payoffs should be playoffs. From "Carrie Underwood joins Vince Vaughn as Green Men celeb target" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on April 30, 2011. Then,

two sentences later, Glenn Healy's first name is short an N. Yahoo!, are you sure this guy is fit to write about hockey? Click an image to enlarge it.

That's to much!

The first to should be too. From "Mullet Man: Patrick Kane’s ‘party in the back’ is back for playoffs" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on April 11, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.

The writer had a two errors

The single-letter word a should be erased, and an O should be removed from outshoot to produce outshot. From"NHL-leading Canucks roll past Blue Jackets" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on March 27, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.

At least Semin wasn't misspelled

Hockey players usually score in overtime, so how did Semin manage to score on OT? He didn't; it's an error. Also that period shouldn't be there. From "Semin scores on OT for Capitals." on Yahoo! Canada Sports on March 6, 2011.

The writer will be wear a dunce cap

Two possible fixes:

1. jettison be
2. add ing to the end of wear

From "Meet the dorky, controversial mascots for the 2014 Olympics" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on February 27, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.