SI reporter gets Michelle Wie disqualified from her first pro tournament.

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadWolf

What a jerkhead.

I think you are all going a little overboard with Bamberger, because, right now, nobody knows what happened. He's a reporter and he's doing his job. He saw Wie do what she did, which was clearly a rules violation.

Now, assuing he went by the book as a reporter, he went and asked Wie about the drop. If she doesn't comment on it or says she doesn't know, the next logical step is to go ask a rules official. The rules official then goes to the tape, sees Wie indeed broke the rules, and the officials follow up on the DQ, etc., then there is absolutley nothing wrong with what he did. He's doing his job in clarifying what happened what he saw and what the rules are.

What's the difference between this and a reporter having a belief that a coach/athlete is cheating, then doing the proper investigations and then reporting it? There is none.

If he questioned the officials about what he saw, he's perfectly innocent on all accounts. On the other hand, if he campaigned to officials for her disqualification, then he's an asshole.