I am not seeing the problem with the writing. It is not great writing, but my quick reading of the piece did not detect grammatical errors and typos.
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.