For six years, Wikipedia named Boston College basketball player Joe Streater as one of the key figures in the 1978–79 point shaving scandal. Streater was innoce

For six years, Wikipedia named Boston College basketball player Joe Streater as one of the key figures in the 1978–79 point shaving scandal. Streater was innocent: he wasn't even on the team that season. Yet this spurious fact came to be quoted by Associated Press, TV networks and countless others.