Any press is good press, right? I'm beginning to doubt that controversial staple of public relations.

An anonymous city planner in Austin and an Associated Press scanner (likely an intern) at the Wall Street Journal have inadvertently linked up to tarnish the good (and civic) name of disc golf.

It seems that Austin published a list of projects it is requesting federal stimulus money to complete. On the list is a request for $800,000 to build a 36-hole pay course in the city.

Of course, the Wall Street Journal chose to incriminate disc golf in the title, even though the actual story barely mentions the course and offers little information about the specifics. This has caused talk radio across the country to key in on the sport as if disc golfers are responsible for the country's economic demise.

It's good to know that the list is now considered outdated so that the media can take our sport down from the "Cross of Unethical Spending Pork". I just hate to think that millions of people who know nothing about the sport will now have negative connotations popping into their minds when they see a basket at a park or a disc on the shelf instead of focusing on the tons of community projects and fundraisers that are managed and powered by disc golfers across the country.