Attention sportswriters and agents: if you get a message left for you by a hot young prospect named Montaous Walton talking up his college stats, you probably want to let that one go:
As OnMilwaukee.com reports, this Walton guy -- or someone claiming the name -- convinced various media outlets to report on his success. That’s not all: he got a couple of sports agencies to give him plane tickets and other things. Major League Baseball isn’t pleased and they want to prosecute the person behind it all.
An OnMilwaukee.com investigation has revealed that someone named Montaous Walton does, indeed, exist. But that person has proven to be nothing more a name on a phone record, a voice on the other end of the line.
Montaous Walton, the baseball player, is fictional.
As OnMilwaukee.com reports, this Walton guy -- or someone claiming the name -- convinced various media outlets to report on his success. That’s not all: he got a couple of sports agencies to give him plane tickets and other things. Major League Baseball isn’t pleased and they want to prosecute the person behind it all.
A good bit of investigative reporting and worth the read.
