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Rick Reilly<\/a><\/strong> will no longer be able to copy Rick Reilly. ESPN has announced<\/a> that Reilly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who has penned a column for ESPN.com since joining the company in 2008 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has decided to go part time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153concentrate on television duties.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This, of course, is all code for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reilly won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop trying to pass off his old columns as new ones, so we had to cut his writing duties.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n In February, Reilly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t act like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been there\u00e2\u20ac\u009d featured multiple exact sentences from a column he wrote in 2009<\/a>, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You just won the US Open! Act like it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The self- plagiarism was so bad we were honestly worried about the guy. It was as if he sat at his desk with both columns open on his computer, and cut and pasted until he had the February piece finished. Actually, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably exactly what he did.<\/p>\n When FishbowlNY aksed ESPN about the similarities between the columns,\u00c2\u00a0Josh Krulewitz<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>, ESPN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VP of communications, told us in February, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are reviewing the situation with Rick.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Consider the situation reviewed.<\/p>\n