Bad writing can be grammatically correct. It was two things:
Paragraph four starting with "Sanford...", the short, choppy staccato cadence of that paragraph reads like high school journalism.
Then the next paragraph seems to contradict the style of paragraph four by being a run-on sentence.
Journalism has deteriorated a lot, it seems, in recent years. The whole piece sounded to me like it was written by someone who was under pressure to meet a deadline and did not bother to reread it for style and flow.
I have seen much worse posted here. But, yes, what passes for journalism these days is pretty awful.