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[We weren’t going to talk about this, but we’ve had our own problems with this type of thing, so we’re going to. Such is the Wild West that is the internet. If you’re looking for jokes, skip this.]

Let’s get right into it - ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd stole an entire routine about Vince Young’s Wonderlic Test verbatim from a blog called The M Zone.

Word for word, uncredited. Presented it as his own. Understandably, they’re pissed, and everyone else is getting a little riled up, as well. Not only that, but he’s sitting back in his fancy radio-man chair acting like an ass about it. This is making other sites pissed, as well.

We’re not going to speak for the entire interweb, but as far as this site goes, we just think people who do shit like this are retarded.

Look - we can see what happened. We get it. No doubt you were innocently handed this thing and read it, not knowing any better. No shame there - it’s your usual noncreative routine you go through every Monday-Friday. The problem we have is what happened when you got called on it via email. This was your response:

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:35 AM
From: ESPN Colin Cowherd Show
To: michiganzone at adelphia dot net
Subject: RE: From the M Zone
Size: 2 KB

WE WERE SENT IT….WE HAD NO IDEA..BUT THE INCESSANT WHINING…MEANS I WON’T GIVE YOU CREDIT NOW..GET OVER IT
CC

And that was in reply to a civil email requesting a simple credit. Anyway, this isn’t any huge surprise, and we’re hardly looking to join some revolt against the mainstream media or ESPN - without them, we wouldn’t have much to go on. At least we credit them, though. Colin Cowherd is just being lame - at least own up, dude.

You can voice your displeasure with Colin by emailing the show here. If you don’t want to compose your own email, just copy ours and send it along.

Yo CC -
You’re a dildo.

Your pal,
Batman

We saw this over at the the mighty mjd originally, btw. See how easy sourcing is?