OT: ESPN.com Expert caught for plagiarism

[Glide2keva]

Pathetic.

John Carroll was the head coach at Duquesne for six years, and an assistant coach in the NBA for nine—including a 36-game stint as interim head coach for the Celtics in 2004. He's now sharing his expertise for Scouts Inc., which was purchased by ESPN in 2006. Since then Carroll's scouting reports have appeared regularly on ESPN.com, largely behind their Insider paywall.

Today Carroll took a look at the upcoming Spurs-Clippers series. It's uncannily similar to a pair of posts made on the message board SpursTalk.com, all from user "Timvp." The posts were published Sunday and Monday, Carroll's column just before noon today.

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Former NBA Coach Plagiarizes Spurs Message Board For ESPN.com Column

 

[Chi-Town Brahma]

Wow, was he really without any ideas of what to write? :smh:

To seriously steal from a message board poster is pretty bad. haha

 

[BNB]

hahahaha wtf.. that's the same message board with the users that were trolling us after Rose got injured.

 

[ChitwnRyan60452]

Well if John Carroll comes out with a "The Bulls are going to win the championship and ESPN is a bunch of Heat fans" we know where it came from...

 

[inactiveuser1]

hahahaha wtf.. that's the same message board with the users that were trolling us after Rose got injured.

Came here to post this

 

[Deng Defense Force]

Maybe he didn't plagiarise it. He could've been the message board poster.

John Carrol = ESPN message board troll.

 

[X]

I'm Timvp...

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