You may have seen
NCGolfers.com featured in CSS galleries since it launched last summer:
Last month
The Golf Channel, formerly an advertiser on NCGolfer’s site, launched a redesign of their own:
When asked about the similarities, The Golf Channel’s only response was to
withdraw their advertising.
Most every designer admits to taking ideas from sites they admire and this example is nowhere near the biggest “ripoff” I’ve seen. But it seems to reflect pretty badly on the Golf Channel that they, as a large company with a large design budget, would need to borrow so heavily from a small private website which had not only carried their advertising but had already received recognition for the design. Not responding with any useful explanation makes them look even worse.