John Carrol plagiarizes from SpursTalk

Spurs organization is so good that even their fans put out insider-quality material.

 

Hey we got Bima, Durv, and CH (when not making innuendos) and ofc Clutch himself posting very insightful materials.

 

Somebody here shared a couple of his posts with Henry Abbott from ESPN's Truehoop and they were printed with his permission.

 

Don't worry. That wasn't a diss to the CF crew.

 

Difference is John Carol tried to hide it by using a thesaurus for some of timvp's words.

 

Was that Bima or Clutch?

DD

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/31668/nba-negotiations-in-a-handy-chart

 

It would be cool if there was a collective where bonafide forum posters could share their insights. Regulate it to 1-3 established personalities per team. And of course make sure the site was state of the art and marketed.

 

timvp should sue John Carrol who was profiting off of his work. Probably sue ESPN while I was at it, for a little extra settlement.

 

Good thing we have DaDakota on our team

 

This.

Copying free information and charging Insider prices for it. It's pretty bad. Timvp said he doesn't want Carroll to lose his job though. It's quite the lulz over at SpursTalk.

 

I know that there are software for professors/teachers to check student papers for plagiarism from the internet. It is sad if a major media organization has to do the same with their columnists. Of course, this is not to say that plagiarism doesn't happen with media professionals in and out of the sports field. This example is just ridiculously blatant and stealing from a fan message board is rather low.

Reminds me of what some of the Chinese sports sites used to do with stuff from Clutchfans, actually. They would basically translates posts from Clutchfans either without attribution or pass it off as some sort of US expert opinion.

 

And tbh, that was a terrible attempt at plagiarism. He could have dine a better job.

 

paulfwtf and mayzar should watch their backs.