Wonderful garden path headline

[Alice Faber]

This isn't strictly a dialect issue, but still...From ESPN, as linked to
from the Yahoo sports page.
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2410865&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines>

"Riley won't travel with Heat to Atlanta to visit mother"

The headline was later edited to the more transparent "Riley to visit
ailing mother, may miss Heat vs. Hawks"


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