Some electronic media reported University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino "slept" with a woman on a restaurant table. Now, we all know what they meant, but alert TV news readers or producers should have been smart enough to see how idiotic that phrase sounded under the circumstances.
The Associated Press, and therefore the Globe-News, didn't succumb to euphemisms in its reporting of the scandal.
The next time something like this happens, and you know it will, the media should re-read what it's reporting and play it straight, unless the perpetrator actually wakes up face down in a plate of pasta primavera.