Phoenix New Times falls for NBA tattoo hoax
Romenesko spotted this article/admission in the Phoenix New Times:
In this week’s cover story, In the Flesh, we reported that NBA Commissioner David Stern would seek a proposed “tattoo cap” on NBA players at the end of the 2011 season.
Turns out, the proposed tat cap is a hoax.
We picked up the story from Foxsports.com, but the spoof article, “NBA Pushes for Tattoo Cap, Players Association Resists,” was originally published on the Gerbil Sports Network blog of Con Chapman. It turns out that Chapman’s a serious sports journalist — sometimes. His The Year of the Gerbil is a non-fiction book about the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees pennant race. But his blog site features spoof and humor pieces…
The New Times reporter actually went and interviewed NBA players about the proposed ban.
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