A report from Westword:

Woody Paige wrote about one of his employers using a forum provided by the other one in “ESPN Empire One Great Story,” published in Sunday’s Denver Post.
Problem is, three quotes in the piece appeared word for word in a SportsBusiness Journal article from April written by John Ourand, who called out Paige on Twitter. Today, Paige is offering his apologies.

“It was not done maliciously or to take credit for something I didn’t do,” Paige stresses. However, he adds, “It was my mistake.” …

“We’ve agreed that the columns would be shorter, and my column was about six inches too long,” he says. “So I cut six inches — and in the final column I turned in, I improperly, incorrectly and unprofessionally cut the attribution to the SportsBusiness Journal.

“I knew Bill Daniels and wrote about him,” he continues. “He was a friend, and he told me about that stuff — but I didn’t have a direct quote. So doing my due diligence, I found that quote from Mr. Maxwell, who I knew was from Denver, and I thought it added to the fact that Bill Daniels was very instrumental in helping ESPN, and also that ESPN was thinking very seriously about moving here years and years ago. So I put it in — but then I screwed up the entire column by not attributing the quote.”

How is he trying to make amends?

“I talked to John and I apologized to him,” Paige allows. “I told him it was a mistake, and he accepted that and said he enjoyed the column.”

A correction will run in the paper and the Post also added this note to the online version of the column:

Note: This column has been updated from its print version to include an attribution.

If the print edition deserves a proper correction then so does the online version. The above is frustratingly vague.

Via Romenesko.

Because of a reporting error, a story on Page 3E on Sunday listed author John Updike as still living. He died in January.

Thanks, Ernest!

Although the Rangeview Library District and one of its consultants, Ambient Energy, described the new Anythink Brighton library branch as “carbon positive,” meaning the building has a “positive” impact on the environment, the common terminology for a building that generates more energy than it uses is “carbon neutral” or “carbon negative.” The term was used in a story that appeared Wednesday on Page 1B.

Thanks, Ernest!

Because of an editing error, a story on Page 19E Sunday about the upcoming “Kaleidoscope” ice-skating TV special incorrectly stated that Kristi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The story should have said that Dorothy Hamill and Olivia Newton- John have had the diagnoses.

Thanks, Ernest!