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Press coverage of eTrueSports.com

Since our birth on June 21, 2007, eTrueSports has enjoyed media attention in hundreds of outlets, including national and local television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and websites.

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"HILARIOUS"

STEVE SOMERS - WFAN (4/12/08)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/extramustard/03/13/hotclicks.0313/index.html

March 10, 2008 - Daily Links

http://www.etruesports.com/index.php?page=article&articleId=104

Jim Peltz And finally

The satirical website etruesports.com says a last-minute snag in negotiations over baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's three-year contract extension was avoided "when the stipulation that the commissioner 'be more chipper' was dropped."

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Los Angeles Times, Morning briefing (12/14/07)

Jim Peltz

Etruesports.com, a satiric Web site, took a poke at Bobby Petrino, who last week suddenly resigned as coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons - after only 13 games - to become the football coach at Arkansas.

Under a story headlined "I Will Keep Moving Until Housing Crisis Is Over!" the Web site said Petrino, who has coached at other professional and college teams, committed to buy "yet another house, his fifth in the last five years," to help the housing market.

Joe Torre: Dodger's $13 Million Dollar Man

Frank Coffey alerts us to the next blockbuster .

fishbowl LA
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By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER The Score hears ... September 30, 2007 Change at the top Has the time come for a Madison Square Garden makeover?With all the juicy allegations that have come out since Anucha Browne Sanders' $10 million sexual harassment lawsuit went to trial earlier this month, eTrueSports.com is reporting that MSG chairman James Dolan will announce that "The World's Most Famous Arena" will be rechristened "The Joint Where Anything Goes."***** Congrats to local sports parody site eTrueSports.com for its "debut" on YouTube. Writer Frank Coffey's spoof site eTrueSports.com is now in video on YouTube. *****

Los Angeles Times, Morning briefing (9/09/07) Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has entered a rehab facility to fight a cupcake abuse problem. "I've wolfed down cupcakes for years," Carr said, "scheduled my life around them. But too much of a good thing can turn on you."*****

San Antonio Express-News (8/09/07) LEADING OFF Now here's a Web site motto we can love: "Dedicated To Taking Scraps of Truth And Turning Them Into Absurdist Nonsense." That's the creed of eTrueSports.com, which reads kind of like "The Daily Show" for sports. (more) http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA081007.2C.King.Page2.en.1bb6c2c7.html *****July 30, 2007

FBLA 20 Questions: Frank Coffey

Journo/TV-film writer/novelist Frank Coffey used to just read blogs. Now he writes one. Coffey's Venice-based parody sports website, eTrueSports.com, is "committed to taking scraps of truth and turning them into absurdist nonsense."

Recent headlines include: Manny Ramirez Adopts Carbon Neutral Lifestyle and Woods' Daughter Signs With Gerber.

Read Frank's Answers to 20 Questions - Click Here *****

July 21, 2007

Sports : Morning Briefing

And finally

With Barry Bonds taking his record chase to Milwaukee, Commissioner Bud Selig, who lives in the area, finally ran out of excuses not to attend Bonds' games and went to Friday's Giants-Brewers game.

Excerpts from the top 10 reasons the reluctant Selig might yet miss Bonds' moment, from eTrueSports.com editor Frank Coffey:

"Knitting group meets that night."

"Conflict with hair salon appointment."

"Scheduled for annual Packer Backer hat fitting."

"Afraid public appearance will expose real name [Allan]."

And at No. 1 …

"He just doesn't like Barry all that much."

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robyn.norwood@latimes.com

Striking the right tone

With all the gushing about David Beckham and his wife coming to town, it's nice to see the Venice-based eTrueSports — "Dedicated to taking scraps of truth and turning them into absurdist nonsense" — adding some punctuation to the coverage:

David Beckham, worried about LA traffic, has made a tender offer for the Pacific Coast Highway with the intention of taking the road private. "It will be like a big driveway," explained wife Posh Spice.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Mrs. Rocket says don't look at me

Don't blame Roger Clemens' wife for his fatigued groin: "Definitely isn't my fault," Debbie Clemens told friends at an East Side bistro. "Last week he said he had a headache. I'm sick of his excuses."

Memo to Clemens' libel attorney: Please don't sue us! It's just a joke! It's just an item from the new eTrueSports.com, The Onion-meets Deadspin Web site!

Editor-in-chief Frank Coffey - the brother of the Daily News' Wayne Coffey - calls eTrueSports.com "a daily Web publication offering objective (some might say satiric), reality-based (some might say spoofish) reporting and commentary on sports and the players, owners, fans, acolytes and buffoons who inhabit that world."

Sports fans, Coffey adds, need something to laugh about. "I love The Onion," Coffey says, "but it betrays its print background. The stories sometimes stay on their site for three weeks at a time. I thought there was a niche for something that moved quicker. If they are a battleship, we're a PT boat."

This just in: Tiger Woods actually expressed a real opinion. Barry Bonds, meanwhile, declined a seven-figure endorsement deal from Goodyear to put its name on the side of his head. "Blimp them," Barry said good-naturedly.

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Elvis's Masters' classic: "In The Bunker"

Michael Phelps for The Clean Bong Water Foundation

In what some are saying could be a poignant end to a once promising second career, eTrueSports has learned that the Alaska Ass Clowns of the fledgling American Caucasian Basketball League have ended negotiations with Sarah Palin to become the team's new mascot Barky. "Our focus group said she'd scare children," explained an Ass Clowns' spokesman.

Sources close to Kobe Bryant have told eTrueSports the athlete/comedian will star in a remake of the 1997 TV movie "Mother Knows Best." Ironically, negotations with his own mother to play herself "have not gone well."

Liberty University has added ESPN basketball analyst Chris Broussard as a commencement speaker, eTrueSports has learned. "The world needs more black bigots," said a spokesman for the evangelical Christian school of higher learning.

Los Angeles Lakers' center Dwight Howard has been rushed to Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with Early-Onset Megalomania. "This is a real wake-up call," Howard told eTrueSports. "I need to concentrate 100% on myself to get better."

TMZ is reporting that the Grizzlies' Zach Randolph touched the rim at 3:42 of the 3rd quarter in Tuesday's 88-84 victory over the Thunder.

“Karma’s a bitch," said a spokesman for the American Buddhist Society commenting on Tiger Woods' DQ-less loss at The Masters.

The case against the crowd outside Pauley Pavilion who demanded the return of fired basketball coach Ben Howland has been dropped by the LAPD. "Both of them are good kids," spokesman told eTrueSports. "They just made a dumb mistake."

The National Transportation Safety Board investigation into ex-UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland's offense as source of drowsiness blamed for a rash of campus pedestrian collisions has been suspended. "The Westwood nightmare is over," said an NTSB spokesman.

After selling the naming rights to their football building - now Geo Group Stadium - to a private prison company, Florida Atlantic University denied the "The Perps" (formerly "The Owls") would compete in black and white striped uniforms. "That would be tacky," explained FAU President Mary Jane Saunders.

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