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At the bottom of his Big 12 football column, Jerome Solomon has an interesting story on the upcoming Oklahoma-Missouri game, and a bogus quote that was being attributed to the Mizzou coach for a while. Unfortunately, Solomon appears to get all of his facts from this article that appeared in the Daily Oklahoman. He credits the Daily Oklahoman (at least for part of his story), a practice that is rare for the Dreadful Chron, so it's clearly not plagiarism. But it's really kind of pathetic that a sports columnist for a major (?) daily in the city with probably the most grads from two schools in the Big 12 (UT and Texas A&M) and a huge number from a third (OU) must resort to rewriting another newspaper's coverage of one of best football conferences in the country. He didn't even bother to call and get ANY quotes of his own, but just ran the ones (without proper attribution, really) from the Daily Oklahoman.

I thought Mr. Jeff Cohen wanted his columnists to stop doing that? I guess Jerome didn't get the memo.

[Posted at 23:26 CST on 10/03/02] [Link]