It was bound to happen eventually. There is a lot of competition in the world of sports reporting. There are a lot of news sources and only so many stories. On top of that, you have the explosion of sports blogs in the past couple of years and it was inevitable that some chump with a paycheck would eventually steal from a blogger.
Now, I’ll admit that the evidence in this case isn’t rock solid, but it’s pretty close. The guy may not have plagiarized the actual words of the article in question, but the topic certainly appears stolen, especially when you consider that it’s the second such “coincidence.”
It’s a good thing I don’t write well enough to be stolen from.