On Tuesday night, the Florida radio station WDBO posted a story on its web site saying that a temporary injunction had been entered against Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss “for protection against dating violence.”

A couple hours later, the station pulled the report without explanation, leading us to wonder if the station had jumped the gun, and whether the Randy G. Moss who had a restraining order against him was just a guy who happened to share a name with a football player.

But now WDBO has posted a copy of the document to its web site, and it is the Randy Moss who plays for the Patriots, unless there are two people named Randy Gene Moss who were born on 2/13/77, are 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, and live in Boston.

For the Patriots, this could become a distraction at exactly the wrong time, although so far this season the Patriots have shown an amazing ability not to let anything distract them.

As for WDBO, why did they post, then pull, then post the story again? I called their newsroom and couldn’t reach anyone who knew, but they’re standing by the story now.