One of the privileges of being a Globe and Mail subscriber is getting Toro magazine for free.

As a result, you get top-quality magazine writing buttressed by razor-sharp editing ... er, most of the time.

Take  the November 2005 issue. On the cover is Steve Nash.

The lede talks about a late-season game between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Clippers.

Uh, which season? The new one's about to start, so I guess they mean 2004-05.

But it gets worse. The article refers to Nash being a frontrunner for the NBA's most valuable player award.

Newsflash, Toro: HE WON!! Check it out.

At this point, I'm wondering if this story was filed in March or April and then left to rot in a drawer or in some folder on a hard drive for months until someone at the mag remembered there would be another basketball season coming up.

But one would think the editors would read the piece over and change that which would make it look really, really stale. I didn't read the rest of it because the first three grafs or so were so jarring.

Man, big oops.