Sports Writer Suspended For Plagiarizing Rick Reilly's Work

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Interesting Sports Writer Suspended For Plagiarizing Rick Reilly's Work

(Submitted August 01, 2008)

It's in Everett, WA.....give them a break.......

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TheSportsAppleAll-American

487 days ago

Score 9

I didn't click the link yet, but was the writer named Cougar2000?

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SSreportersLegend

487 days ago

Score 2

ZING!!!!!!!!

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CrackajgDraft Pick

487 days ago

Score 1

Touche, sir, touche.

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JuTMSY4Legend

487 days ago

Score 3

What I don't get is...Rick Reilly sucks, why do it?

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LASportsblogAAA-er

487 days ago

Score 0

touche to you sir

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AmphibiousSportsDuoVarsity

487 days ago

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I wonder if Rick apologized for copying his SI work in just his second article with ESPN.

Reilly wrote a column in 1999 about the Yankees that started like this: "Rooting for the Yankees takes all the courage, imagination, conviction and baseball intelligence of Spam. It's like rooting for Brad Pitt to get the girl or for Bill Gates to hit Scratch 'n' Win."

Compare this to his US Open column: "Rooting for Tiger Woods is like rooting for Justin Timberlake to get lucky, Exxon to hit a gusher, Bill Gates to find a twenty on the sidewalk."

I guess that's what you get when you pay 7 figures for a writer. Or, maybe Rick was just practicing fitting in at ESPN by being lazy.

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Agraham1Pee Wee

487 days ago

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I actually don't see the problem with that. I like Rick Reilly I think he is a great writer. Just because he uses a similar metaphor 9 years later in a completely different article doesn't seem like that big of deal.

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AmphibiousSportsDuoVarsity

487 days ago

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Metaphor usage aside, taking a long sabbatical, getting a monster contract, and in his second column he writes, (about the sport he loves so very much) he duplicates the template. They both say we should root for the lovable losers. It's a little like differentiating between early Anthony Michael Hall roles. This time, Mr. Farmer, you like paleontology!

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LASportsblogAAA-er

487 days ago

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Reilly is crap 6-7 out of 10 times and yet popular enough so that copying him makes you both and idiot and a person with poor taste.

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