Skip went back to Troy's UCLA days trying to dig up some dirt on Troy being a homo and came up empty so basically he had to write that Troy "might" be gay because he couldn't find a reliable source.
Skip acts as if he was the only reporter around during that time the Cowboys were ALWAYS in the media, they had pretty much 2012 level of microscope back then. I remember when Playmaker drug habit was starting to get out of hand, and there were rumors from local media that Irvin was constantly spotted buying drugs and like a month later he was busted for it, so there's no way Troy could have been a fakkit and only Skip could know, shyt would have been revealed by now.