I don't know what lessons to draw from this. But there are some wrecks on the street that I simply must inspect. Since I am scrupulous about revealing my own sources, I will start with that. I learned of the below weird bit of plagiarism only quite recently, from Felix Salmon's column at Reuters . (Yes, that entry is actually by Ben Walsh, but the column as a whole has Felix' name on it.) It appears that an ESPN.com columnist, Lynn Hoppes, has been engaging in blatant plagiarism. From wikipedia no less. (Gee, that's such an obscure site! who would ever know???) Isaac Rauch, of DeadSpin, called out Hoppes on this back in July . In case you don't want to follow that link, here are a couple of Rauch's examples: Wikipedia on boxing great and rape ex-con Mike Tyson: "Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA, and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 d...