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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.......
seattletimes.nwsource.com
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TheSportsAppleAll-American
467 days ago
Score 9+-
I didn't click the link yet, but was the writer named Cougar2000?
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SSreportersLegend
467 days ago
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ZING!!!!!!!!
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CrackajgDraft Pick
467 days ago
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Touche, sir, touche.
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JuTMSY4Legend
467 days ago
Score 3+-
What I don't get is...Rick Reilly sucks, why do it?
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LASportsblogAAA-er
467 days ago
Score 0+-
touche to you sir
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AmphibiousSportsDuoVarsity
467 days ago
Score 1+-
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
467 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
467 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
467 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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DRE-LOAAA-er
466 days ago
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Geez, at least he could have plagarized from someone decent.
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MlnsportsVarsity Captain
466 days ago
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Riley is an overpaid hack, a sports fan with a typewriter whose journalistic ethics are questionabble at best. Dre-Lo has it.
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