Ron Borges - JackAss of the week March 6th, 2007 - March 14th, 2007

[Mike]

Now this is professional!



Boston Globe suspends sports writer amid plagiarism allegations

BOSTON -- The Boston Globe suspended veteran sports writer Ron Borges on Monday amid accusations he plagiarized part of a football column from another reporter.

The Globe's editor, Martin Baron, said in a story posted on the newspaper's Web site that Borges had included in his football notes column last Sunday material written by Mike Sando, a reporter for The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash.

"The Globe does not tolerate plagiarism," Baron said in a statement. "Extensive passages written by the Tacoma reporter were used verbatim in the column by Borges, and that is prohibited."

Borges, a sportwriter at the paper for 24 years, was suspended without pay for two months and barred from broadcast appearances for the same period, Baron said.

The Globe said Borges, its national football writer, used without attribution material from a notes exchange used by NFL writers. Globe sports editor Joe Sullivan said Borges was not aware the material had been published in the News Tribune on Feb. 25.

The allegations of plagiarism first arose on a Web site, coldhardfootballfacts.com.

Borges declined comment to The Associated Press on Monday night.

Dan Totten, president of the Boston Newspaper Guild, said the union was standing by Borges.

"Ron Borges is a talented veteran of The Boston Globe sports pages whose work is of the highest caliber. Ron's work is widely appreciated and respected within the sports journalism world. The Boston Newspaper Guild stands with Ron and we will defend him and see that justice prevails," Totten said.

Sando, reached by telephone by the AP, declined to comment and referred questions to Dale Phelps, the News Tribune's deputy managing editor.

"It's kind of an unfortunate circumstance from my point of view," Phelps said, "but we don't have any anger or anything. For us, it's an issue for them to deal with at their paper."

Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan was suspended for one month without pay in 2003 for his remarks on a television show that the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack her." Ryan apologized for the comment.

In 2000, Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was suspended for four months for failing to cite sources in a column. Patricia Smith resigned in 1998 after admitting she fabricated characters and quotes in her columns, and Mike Barnicle resigned later that year because he was unable to verify facts in a 1995 column.

[BaldBil]

He does deserve this honor. He didn't even try to reword or rephrase anything, he ran multiple paragraphs practically verbatim. At the end of the column he credited multiple sources as having contributed to the column but in this case he should have indicated that the material was someone elses work in total. This was lazy and maybe a little arrogant. I find it ironic that the guy who has been accusing Belichick of arrogance and trying to take him down a peg finds himself in this situation.

[Mike]

I thought that this would hit home for you Bill since you write a little and are from that area! Maybe not a jackass in so many ways, maybe he could be marked a lazy bastard!

[JGAC]

It was verbatim? clearly an idiot.

[BaldBil]

Four entire paragraphs, 99% verbatim from a Tacoma, Wash paper.

[ssigman]

maybe he bought the article on the internet for 15 bucks

[BaldBil]

Originally Posted by ssigman

maybe he bought the article on the internet for 15 bucks

In that case all he had to was give credit to a specific source and acknowledge the payment.

Dumb old Borges
thought he was gorgeous
and wrote whatever he wanted.
Then when the shit hit
bout what he had writ
he became the one who was taunted!

[ssigman]

i think you stole that poem

[Rusty27]

Originally Posted by ssigman

i think you stole that poem

Proof
The Globe said Borges used language from a football writers' notes exchange that writers usually use for background. The material was written by Tacoma sportswriter Mike Sando, and published in the News-Tribune on February 25th.Dumb old Borges
thought he was gorgeous
and wrote whatever he wanted.
Then when the shit hit
bout what he had writ
he became the one who was taunted!
Borges declined to comment tonight. The Boston Newspaper Guild said it stands by Borges and will defend him in the matter.
Sando also declined to comment. The News-Tribune's deputy managing editor Dale Phelps says the incident was unfortunate but his paper is not angry about it.
Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[BaldBil]

Originally Posted by ssigman

i think you stole that poem

From the book of Poetry about jackass sportswriters who are to freakin lazy to write their own stuff.

[ssigman]

great job finding it rusty....i think bil might become a jaow...someone take his weapons away

[Rusty27]

I'm not going to press charges against Bil. I don't want to disappear like Gunny.

[ssigman]

bm is training to become a cop...he can protect you...so no clowning around ok