Sports Illustrated's Demise?

Sports Illustrated has entered a realm of embarrassment it is not used to. Journalism's top sports writers have been dodging job opportunities with SI in favor of the behemoth ESPN or other employers (See J.A. Adande). SI just endured a larger wake-up call aptly described below by AOL Fanhouse:

Whoops! Henry Abbott of True Hoop almost got duped as well, but I can't blame the guy, because SI.com is still looked upon as "mainstream media" -- so people believe them. You'd think they'd check their sources and reference them accordingly. But now I'm not so sure "SI" doesn't stand for "Stealing Information" since they have been notoriously bad this year (see: taking a quote from With Leather without attribution, see also: running a story that no one bothered to check its validity). Oh, sure they added this:

NOTE: An earlier version of this item contained a quote attributed to P. Diddy, which turned out in fact to be the creation of a blogger. My apologies to the readers and to P. Diddy, for attributing it erroneously to him.

But I don't see a link, the name of the blogger or the exact place you took it from. Geez, guys, man up and give credit. It could've been one of those, "Oh ha ha ha, I misread," but now it's more like, "We're never wrong and readers won't know otherwise." Not cool SI.com, not cool.