Well to be fair to your original point I think Teddy stated he wasn't playing from the unnamed team source sometime Monday before the press conference where Collins confirmed it yday morning. So maybe you can complain about that? I dunno, will leave it to other people who know Medill rules better than me...
Maybe he just did a modest disservice to his readers by not better defining the quality of his source so that his readers could better determine the veracity of the unnamed source. Maybe.