Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin played nice with Tina Fey and company on Saturday Night Live last night. Even so, we were surprised to learn, courtesy of Frank Coffey and the goodfellas at eTrueSports, that the Idaho-born Alaska governor once had another interesting NYC gig . . .

“It Was Fun, Gyratin’ And Gruntin’ In Front Of All Them Liberal Media Types”
Governor Denies Relationship With Former Knick Charles Oakley
New York – Following news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin secretly signed an incentive-laden, deferred contract to play for the NBA’s New York Knicks beginning November 5th,  eTrueSports has learned of a previous personal and business …read more

So, you know how we mentioned Amanda Beard backpedaling on her comments about Michael Phelps’ hotness or lacktherof? And you know how we said we don’t believe it for a minute?
We aren’t the only ones.
Frank Coffey and the Goodfellas at eTrueSports culled these pearls, also known as the Top Eleven Amanda Beard Quotes About Michael Phelps.
11.  Eww! Really. Just Eww!
10.   Mamma’s Boy
9.     1/100th of a second? Come on!
8.     Baltimore is boooring
7.     I HATE Frosted Flakes
6.    ”Eat, sleep and swim”?  nuff said     
5.     Medals schmedals. I was in Playboy!
4.     No mustache. Spitz is much cuter
3.     Big feet do NOT equal… well, y’know
2.     …read more

So, you probably heard how former NBA official and gamblin’ man Tim Donaghy got sent to the pokey for 15 months for betting on games (including those he officiated, natch).
What you haven’t heard, but you will now (thanks to Frank Coffey and the Goodfellas at eTrueSports), is that Donaghy won’t be shackled quietly. Cue the violins and check out this one-of-a-kind footage of Tim Donaghy giving 11 reasons why he should have a lighter sentence.  

Yes, we heard the latest rumor about Brett Favre talking to the New York Jets, and no, we don’t know why he’d want to go play for Eric “Don’t I Look Like Frosty the Snowman” Mangini. (Don’t mind us. We’re just New England Patriots fans, which means our post-Spygate feelings for the portly coach are about as warm as a Slush Puppie).
Maybe someone should ask John Madden? Or at least Frank Caliendo doing John Madden?
Anyway, Frank Coffey and his Goodfellas at eTrueSports did their usual digging for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and here’s what they came up …read more

We are huge tennis fans, such that if we were every inclined to light candles before an athlete, it would be Roger Federer. *cues a “Hallelujah!” from the choir*
This 8 to 5 concept called “work” has kept our sorry bottom from parking in front of the TV to watch Wimbledon all day (except for today), but we have kept up with lives scores and the latest updates.
The early exits of Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova (yay! Glad she’s gone!), Andy Roddick, and Ana Ivanovic were, of course, big news this week. We thought all those top seeds dropping was a little …read more

Game 5 of the NBA Championship Finals, here already.  
Now that we’ve had a few days to reflect on the way the L.A. Lakers blew a 24-point lead in Game 4 and gave the now 3-1 Boston Celtics a chance to clinch the title tonight, we think we know what happened to Jack Nicholson’s favorite team.
Here are the Top 5 reasons the Celtics made such a big comeback in Game 4, in no particular order:
1. That Laker Girl Whitney, who got her start as a Celtics cheerleader, is bad luck. (Move over, Jessica Simpson. There’s a new jinx in town!).
2. The overall putziness of …read more

One day you’re a pop diva throwing out the first pitch at a ballgame in Japan, the next you’re still a pop diva . . . . but now the Kansas City Royals want to sign you.
Welcome to the world of Mariah Carey as told by Frank Coffey and the Goodfellas over there at the always tongue-in-cheek eTrueSports:
 
Kansas City – Mariah Carey yesterday turned down a $3 million incentive-laden contract offer from the struggling Kansas City Royals when the team refused to agree to let the pop diva sing the national anthem. 
The Royals’ offer and Carey’s last-of-the-ninth decision began when a …read more

Former figure skaters are certainly making their mark on the pop culture scene this week. First we had memoir-hawking Tonya Harding, whose 15 minutes of fame was over so long ago they used a sundial to keep track of it. And then we had Kristi Yamaguchi as the Dancing With the Stars winner (and Ex-Miami Dolphin Jason Taylor as the loser).
But as Frank Coffey and the Goodfellas at eTrueSports discovered, it doesn’t end there:
“A Double Lutz in a runback?” says Parcells. “That’s got TD written all over it.”
Miami – “We have a zero tolerance policy for losers,” said Bill Parcells, Miami …read more

If this doesn’t make you shake your head, say “Kids today” right after a world-weary sigh, and finish it off with a tsk-tsk, nothing will.
We’re in a March Madness pool with five other bloggers, and that’s all well and good. But what Frank Coffey and the Goodfellas at eTrueSports uncovered pretty near guarantees that you’ll never look at an NCAA tournament pool the same way again. Yikes.

The Ugly Side of Bracketology
Toledo, OH – Administrators at Hadley Lane Elementary School in Toledo, Ohio reacted forcefully after finding out that both of the school’s kindergarten classes have NCAA tournament pools going.
“We all like the …read more

The fallout continues for Yanks spikemaster Shelley Duncan. The fine and three-game suspension he received for the Yankees-Rays almost-fistfight was just the beginning.
See, just when you think every angle of a story has been covered, Frank Coffey and his eTrueSports Goodfellas prove once again that they dig deeper than any other news organization. (As for what they dig—who are we to judge?)
New York – Bob Watson, MLB’s dean of discipline, has handed Shelley Duncan an additional punishment resulting from last week’s Yankee-Tampa Rays flareup, ordering the Yankee first baseman to write, “I will not slide into second base with my spikes high,” 500 times on college-ruled paper.
“Bummer,” said a subdued …read more