Sorry, I just don't know what to believe anymore. How easy it is to label someone as arrogant or another as "the hot" guy. According to who? Usually a consensus of other sportswriters or some unsubstantiated source.
There is so much competition to be the first to say something and have it be somewhere near right, that guys seem to take speculation as "fact" and throw it out there without much fear of retribution or being held accountable. The field of writing doesn't seem to matter.
Accountability in sports journalism today seems to be mostly about holding the politically correct views on controversial social issues, using properly sensitive words, and not on being factually correct.