"Boogaard's camp is indoctrinating a fresh generation of kids into that warped mindset even as hockey organizations work to eliminate it. Minnesota Hockey's HEP program, which Smith helped create, emphasizes skill development, sportsmanship, fun and clean play. Some youth teams have won titles with the help of the 'Fair Play' points they earned for sportsmanlike conduct."
-- Hockey Hearsay, sportsnet.ca, July 17 (posted at 11:41 a.m. Eastern)
The post links to a column by Rachel Blount of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune... there it is, in Paragraph 8:
"Boogaard's camp is indoctrinating a fresh generation of kids into that warped mindset even as hockey organizations work to eliminate it. Minnesota Hockey's HEP program, which Smith helped create, emphasizes skill development, sportsmanship, fun and clean play. Some youth teams have won titles with the help of the 'Fair Play' points they earned for sportsmanlike conduct."It's not the same as using a photo culled from a Google Image search is one thing -- that's arguably public domain, and people understand that a picture of Brady Quinn that's posted on Kissing Suzy Kolber is not original work. Downloading songs to an iPod is not the same thing -- it's not like anyone is claiming responsibility for Maroon 5's latest hit.
A blog taking paragraphs that were not in quotes and presenting it as original material is plagiarism. It's unethical, intellectually dishonest and a national sports network is surely better than that. Anyone who reads that would assume that's the original thoughts of whoever at sportsnet.ca is posting it, when in fact was written as only Rachel Blount -- or Eric Francis or Damien Cox -- could write it. It's not fair use.
If it's just a HTML issue -- like the program sportsnet.ca uses for blog posts doesn't allow for blockquotes or pullquotes -- then address it. Right now there is the appearance of ripping of sports journalists' work and no one needs that.
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